Mabel Albertson
Mabel Albertson (July 24, 1901 – September 28, 1982) was an American actress.
Life and career
Mabel Ida Albertson was born on Wednesday, July 24, 1901, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the daughter of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Flora Craft and Leopold Albertson. Her younger brother was actor Jack Albertson. Albertson's mother, a stock actress, supported the family by working in a shoe factory.
Albertson was known for her role as Phyllis Stephens, Darrin's neurotic, interfering mother on the television sitcom Bewitched, who invariably ended her stays at the Stephens' home by saying to her husband, "Frank, take me home. I have a sick headache." A memorable early film role was as a proper banker's wife who is repulsed by the bucolic title characters in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955). Albertson appeared in at least one episode of the courtroom drama series, Perry Mason: as Carrie Wilson in the season 6, 1962 episode entitled "The Case of the Hateful Hero".
She played Donald Hollinger's mother on That Girl, Howard Sprague's mother on The Andy Griffith Show, Miss Ramsey on Hazel, Dick Van Dyke's mother on The New Dick Van Dyke Show, and as Mrs. Van Hoskins, a wealthy woman whose jewels are stolen, in the screwball comedy film, What's Up, Doc? (1972). Her son George Englund was once married to actress Cloris Leachman.