Mabel AlbertsonFilmography

Ironside: The Quincunx

Synopsis: Eve (Barbara Anderson) investigates when an old friend, the female member of a folksinging trio consisting of two brothers and a sister, disappears during a San Francisco concert tour. Could this disappearance be linked with the murder of another girl--to say nothing of a sinister drug ring? The Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Psychic Pslip

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Samantha suffers guilt feelings when she uses witchcraft to do her housework, and her guilt is compounded when Darrin refuses to get mad. As a result, Sam comes down with a bad case of the hiccups, causing expensive gifts to magically appear in the Stephens household. A blessing in disguise? Not Read More

Bewitched: Samantha and the Antique Doll

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: It looks like the jig is up when Darrin's mother, Phyllis (Mabel Albertson), catches her grandson, Adam, in an act of magic. Using reverse psychology, Samantha manages to make it appear as if Phyllis is herself a sorceress. The problems that stem from this misapprehension culminate in a zany mock Read More

Bewitched: Mona Sammy

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: The Stephenses have a lot of 'splaining to do when Endora gives them a portrait of Samantha, painted in Mona Lisa fashion by Leonardo Da Vinci himself. To cover up Endora's witchcraft, Darrin takes credit for the painting, and as a result is commissioned to paint a portrait of Larry Tate's Read More

The House That Would Not Die

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck made her TV movie debut in 1970's The House That Would Not Die. The setting is an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Stanwyck moves after inheriting the house, but has cause to rethink her decision. Built during the Revolutionary era, the house is said to be haunted by the Read More

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this feature film version. Barbra Streisand stars as Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who, at the urging of her uptight fiance Warren (Larry Blyden), seeks help in kicking the habit from Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Double Mother Trouble

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: While entertaining Tabitha and Adam, Esmerelda goes into another of her magical sneezing fits and conjures up Mother Goose (Jane Connell), whose arrival coincides with a visit from Darrin's mother (Mabel Albertson). Passing Mother Goose off as Sam's eccentric aunt, the Stephenses find they have Read More

Bewitched: Tabitha's Weekend

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Invited to spend the weekend at the home of Darrin's parents, Tabitha is warned by Samantha not to use any of her magic. Little Tabitha tries hard, but her resolve is weakened when an argument breaks out between her parents and Sam's mother, Endora. Believing that she has caused the fight, Tabitha Read More

Bewitched: Samantha and the Beanstalk

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: The first episode of Bewitched's sixth season, "Sam and the Beanstalk" also marked the series debut of Dick Sargent as the "new" Darrin Stephens. Written by Michael Morris, the story hinges on the jealousy of Samantha and Darrin's daughter, Tabitha, who is none too happy that Sam is about to have Read More

Bewitched: Naming Samantha's New Baby

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Assuming that Samantha will name her new baby after him, Sam's father, Maurice, is outraged when Darrin declares that the child will be named after Darrin's dad, Frank. Not one to do things by halves, Maurice expresses his anger by trapping Darrin inside of a mirror. Sam saves the day by applying Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Super Maid

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: At the insistence of her social-climbing mother-in-law (Mabel Albertson), Samantha hires a maid named Amelia (Nellie Burt). Intending to fire Amelia before she can be a witness to witchcraft, Sam finds it impossible to do so: Amelia is too nice and too dedicated to her work, to warrant dismissal Read More

Bewitched: McTavish

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Aunt Clara's warlock boyfriend, Ocky (Reginald Owen), is tired of having his British castle-hotel haunted by a pesky ghost named McTavish (Ronald Long). Troubleshooting Samantha manages to exorcise Ocky's establishment, only to have McTavish move in with the Stephens family, wails, rattling Read More

Bewitched: Playmates

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: While visiting the home of permissive parent Gretchen Millhowser (Peggy Pope), little Tabitha is tormented by Michael (Teddy Quinn), Gretchen's obnoxious brat of a son. Though she promised her own mommy, Samantha, that she wouldn't practice witchcraft, Tabitha can't resist the temptation to turn Read More

Bewitched: I Don't Want to Be a Toad

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Despite her trepidations that Tabitha may try out her witchcraft on strangers, Samantha enrolls her daughter in nursery school. Though Tabitha tries to rein in her powers, the jig is up when her classmate, Amy (Maralee Foster), refusing to imitate a toad in a school play, insists she'd rather be a Read More

Bewitched: Is It Magic or Imagination?

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: At the suggestion of Darrin's mother (Mabel Albertson), Samantha enters a slogan contest conducted by one of Darrin's clients, the Tinker Bell Diaper Company. Amazingly, Sam wins first prize: an all-expense-paid trip to Tahiti. But Darrin refuses to belief in the efficacy of blind luck, falsely Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Wedding

Actors: Paul Hartman, Jack Dodson, Aneta Corsaut

Synopsis: At long last, Howard Sprague's domineering mother (Mabel Albertson) remarries and moves out of Howard's house. To celebrate his liberation, Howard transforms his conservative domicile into a "swingin' bachelor pad." Alas, his first bachelor party-with Andy and Helen in attendance--proves to be a Read More

Bewitched: Out of Sync, Out of Mind

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: When dotty old Aunt Clara tries to affix a soundtrack to Darrin's home movies of Tabitha, her spell characteristically goes awry. As a result, Samantha finds herself speaking out of sync, her lip movements failing to match her words (or, in the words of an anonymous TV Guide editor, Sam sounds Read More

Bewitched: It's Witchcraft

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Darrin doesn't want his parents (Mabel Albertson and Robert F. Simon) to find out that baby Tabitha is a witch, but at the same time, he can't come up with a good reason not to leave them alone with their granddaughter. The problem blossoms into a full-scale feud between Darrin's mother and Read More

Barefoot in the Park

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, who made his screenwriting debut with this adaptation, Barefoot In The Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie Bratter (Jane Fonda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Lodge

Actors: Jack Dodson

Synopsis: Andy nominates Howard Sprague for membership in the Regal Order of Good Fellowship. Thanks to the intervention of Howard's domineering mother (Mabel Albertson), Goober is persuaded to blackball the hapless Mr. Sprague. This episode was written by Jim Parker and Arnold Margolin, later two of the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The County Clerk

Actors: Aneta Corsaut, Jack Dodson, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Jack Dodson makes his first Andy Griffith Show appearance as Howard Sprague in "The County Clerk." Whenever Howard wants to go out on a date, his domineering mother (Mabel Albertson) feigns illness. Andy and Helen try to help poor Howard cut those pesky apron strings. Nina Shipman rounds out the Read More

Bonanza: A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Sally Kellerman, Hampton Fancher

Synopsis: Bonanza closed out its seventh season on May 15, 1966 with the comic episode "A Dollar's Worth of Trouble." Gypsy palm reader Mme. Adella (Mabel Albertson predicts that Hoss Cartwright's life will soon accommodate a blue-eyed blonde, a moonshiner, and a murderous gunslinger. As these Read More

Bewitched: The Dancing Bear

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Arthur Julian, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: The birth of Tabitha sparks yet another battle of one-upsmanship between Samantha's mother, Endora, and Darrin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens (Mabel Albertson, Robert F. Simon). This time, the bone of contention is a dancing teddy bear, presented to the baby as a gift by Endora. It doesn't take Read More

A Fine Madness

Actors: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted Read More

Bewitched: A Nice Little Dinner Party

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Mabel Albertson, Robert Simon

Synopsis: Though Endora has promised to behave herself when she meets Darrin's parents, both Darrin and Samantha prepare for the worst. Sure enough, trouble ensues at a dinner party arranged in honor of Darrin's folks. The reason? Dear old Mr. Stephens (Robert F. Simon) has apparently fallen head over heels Read More

The Munsters: Munster Masquerade

Synopsis: The debut episode of the mirthfully macabre sitcom The Munsters begins as Marilyn, the "normal" member of the monstrous Munster family of Mockingbird Heights (normal by our standards if not by theirs) is invited to a costume party held by the snobbish parents of her new boyfriend Tom Daly (Linden Read More

Bewitched: Samantha Meets the Folks

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Marion Lorne, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Samantha is nervous at the prospect of meeting Darrin's parents (Mabel Albertson and Robert F. Simon) for the first time. When dotty old Aunt Clara makes a surprise visit, Sam is nearly driven over the edge. How will Sam be able to hide the fact that she's a witch with Clara inadvertently casting Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Missing Stamp

Actors: Mabel Albertson, Herb Vigran, Nestor Paiva, Robert S. Carson, Flip Mark

Synopsis: Selling vacuum cleaners door to door, Lucy (Lucille Ball) gives her first demonstration at the home of Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon)--only to inadvertently suck up a rare stamp worth $3000. Determining that she left the stamp in a pile of dirt at the home of her next customer Mrs. White (Mabel Read More

Period of Adjustment

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver

Synopsis: This was the first feature-length film directed by the very successful George Roy Hill. Based on a Tennessee Williams' novel, this standard comedy-drama focuses on two married couples who are both having a hard time of it, at least for now. The first couple, Isabel and George Haverstick (Jane Fonda Read More

All in a Night's Work

Actors: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Norma Crane

Synopsis: Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing Read More

All the Fine Young Cannibals

Actors: Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey

Synopsis: Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama about two young couples linked by the out-of-wedlock baby spawned by Bixby and Salome Davis (Natalie Wood) before their current marriages. Pearl Bailey appears as a famous Read More

The Tom Ewell Show [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Erskine, Mabel Albertson, Cindy Robbins, Sherry Alberoni, Eileen Chesis

The Hangman

Actors: Robert Taylor, Fess Parker, Jack Lord, Gene Evans

Synopsis: The Hangman is a stock western with a thin plot and cardboard characters, about a rigid, U.S. Marshal. Mackenzie Bovard (Robert Taylor) takes his job working for the federal government very seriously, and when he goes out to get the riff-raff that defy the laws of the land, he finds them and hangs Read More

Don't Give up the Ship

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Don't Give Up the Ship stars Jerry Lewis as a navy officer who is whisked away from his honeymoon by a senate investigating committee. The committee would like to know what happened to the U.S.S. Kornblatt, the battleship Lewis had commandeered during the War; the crew arrived home safely, but the Read More

The Gazebo

Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Any murder mystery featuring a pigeon named Herman can be trusted to offer more mirth than mayhem and that is the case with this upbeat film by director George Marshall. Glenn Ford stars as Elliott Nash, a television playwright married to Nell (Debbie Reynolds), a successful Broadway thespian. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Les Girls

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by the entrepreneurial J. Brodie (Lane Chandler) to deliver a most unusual cargo to the Oregon mining town of Bend-in-the-River. The "cargo" consists of a bevy of beautiful mail-order brides, ordered directly from Paris for matrimonial purposes by Read More

Home Before Dark

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Wearing a curiously (and perhaps deliberately) unattractive blonde wig, Jean Simmons stars in the tense psychological drama Home Before Dark. Having just recovered from a nervous breakdown, Charlotte Bronn (Simmons) returns from a mental institution to the home she shares with her academician Read More

The Female Animal

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, Jerry Paris

Synopsis: Harry Keller, the man who directed the extra scenes in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, receives solo directorial credit in The Female Animal. Hedy Lamarr stars as Vanessa Windsor, a beautiful but ageing film star whose life is saved on the set by handsome extra Chris Farley (George Nader). Falling in Read More

The Long, Hot Summer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick

Synopsis: While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate well to the screen; it's ironically appropriate that this movie, based on several of Faulkner's short stories, is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work Read More

Man Afraid

Actors: George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey, Eduard Franz, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Man Afraid stars George Nader as a clergyman serving a big-city slum district. He is forced to kill a young hoodlum in self-defense; the police are willing to forgive him of the killing, but the victim's psychotic father (Harold J. Stone) is not so pliable. The father threatens not only to wreak Read More

Forever Darling

Actors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Emery

Synopsis: When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beat the odds against TV stars succeeding on the big screen in The Long, Long Trailer (1954), MGM contracted America's favorite couple for a second theatrical feature. Forever Darling casts Desi as Lorenzo Xavier Vega, a brilliant scientist and Lucy as Susan, his Read More

Four Girls in Town

Actors: George Nader, Julie Adams, Sydney Chaplin, Marianne Cook, Elsa Martinelli, Gia Scala, Helene Stanton

Synopsis: Four Girls in Town is essentially an excuse by Universal-International to test out several of their newer contractees. The plot is motivated by a worldwide movie talent hunt, which naturally arouses the attentions of a bevy of pretty young aspiring actresses. The four girls of the title are Kathy Read More

Ransom

Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez, Robert Keith, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: Viewers familiar with the 1996 Mel Gibson blockbuster Ransom may be disappointed that there are no smirking villains, car chases, or bloody fistfights in the original 1956 version of the same story. Even so, the earlier Ransom! has much to offer on a purely dramatic level. Based on the Richard Maibaum Read More

The Cobweb

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: William Gibson's novel The Cobweb was brought to the screen by MGM with an impressive, hand-picked cast. Richard Widmark plays the head of a posh psychiatric clinic. Widmark's wife Gloria Grahame jockeys for the honor of selecting new drapes for the hospital's library. One wouldn't think that such Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Russell Johnson, Hilo Hattie

Synopsis: The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing operation. The villains are a group of rival businessmen Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Read More

About Mrs. Leslie

Actors: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar, Alex Nicol, Sammy White

Synopsis: Shirley Booth followed up her Oscar-winning performance in Come Back Little Sheba with the high-gloss soap opera About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, the film casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a long, long flashback. Born on the Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Drums of Death

Synopsis: Although Lois Lane does not appear in this episode, there is still a "damsel in distress" in the form of Kate White (Mabel Albertson), the sister of "Daily Planet" editor Perry White (John Hamilton). When Kate disappears in Haiti, reporters Clark (George Reeves), and Jimmy (Jack Larson) inaugurate Read More

So This Is Love

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon, Walter Abel, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting her entrance cue, she reflects upon her life and the sequence of events that led her from a humble childhood in Tennessee to becoming one of the brightest stars in the opera Read More

She's Back on Broadway

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Frank Lovejoy, Steve Cochran, Patrice Wymore

Synopsis: Virginia Mayo stars in this unofficial follow-up to her 1952 musical hit She's Working Her Way Through College. Mayo plays movie star Catherine Terris, who after three box-office flops in a row, returns to the Broadway stage whence she came. Her co-star in this endeavor is Rich Sommers (Steve Cochran Read More

My Pal Gus

Actors: Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter, George Winslow, Regis Toomey, Joan Banks

Synopsis: Gus (George Winslow) is the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark). Unable to cope with Gus' mischievous streak, Jennings places the boy in a day-care center. Gus' teacher Lydia Marble (Joanne Dru) manages to curb the boy's prankishness, and along the way falls in love Read More

The Black Widow

Synopsis: Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC Read More

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Actors: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Noah Beery, Sr., Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Synopsis: One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against mutineers and a ship load of freed slaves. Eventually the ship docks off the California coast and the twosome disembark. While traveling the land, they end up trying to prevent Read More

Gang War

Actors: Lorin Raker, Mabel Albertson, David Hartman, Olive Borden

Synopsis: Gang War stars Jack Pickford as speakeasy musician Clyde Baxter and Olive Borden as Flowers, a dime-a-dance girl. When Clyde falls in love with Flowers, he finds he has a deadly rival in the form of gangster Blackjack (Eddie Gribbon). During an all-out war between two rival gangs, Blackjack proves Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Hateful Hero

Synopsis: Things get personal for Lt. Andy Anderson (Wesley Lau) when his cousin, partrol-car cop Jimmy Anderson (Dick Davalos), is accused of being the "inside man" for a burglary at the Wilsons Plastics Company. During a shootout with the thieves, Jimmy's partner Otto Norden (William Boyett) was killed Read More