11 Facts About Blossom Rock

Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald, known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television.

Blossom Rock was born on August 21,1895, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Blossom Rock had an elder sister, Elsie Wallace MacDonald, who had been a vaudeville performer and then operated a dance school until 1962.

Blossom Rock married actor Clarence Warren Rock, on September 26,1926, in Manhattan, and they performed as a vaudeville act titled "Rock and Blossom" from 1925 to 1929.

Clarence Blossom Rock died in 1960, and the couple had no children.

Blossom Rock adopted the name Marie Blake for her film career, beginning as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in 1937 with an uncredited appearance in My Dear Miss Aldrich.

Blossom Rock's first credited major part was Love Finds Andy Hardy, and she then played her most notable onscreen role as Sally, the hospital switchboard operator, in the nine films that comprised MGM's popular Dr Kildare series from 1938 to 1942.

Blossom Rock once had the same agent as Irene Ryan, whose similar career later caused Rock to fire him.

Blossom Rock returned to using her real name in the 1950s, and later gained her biggest fame by playing "Grandmama" on the ABC sitcom The Addams Family, which was originally broadcast from 1964 to 1966.

Blossom Rock suffered a stroke in December 1967 that affected her speech and prevented her from reuniting with fellow castmates for the 1977 television film Halloween with the New Addams Family.

Blossom Rock died at age 82 on January 14,1978, in Los Angeles, California, and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.