1. Blake and her husband James Lincoln Blake received a citation for some of their work from the US government.
13 Facts About Madge Blake
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Madge Blake was a first cousin of actor Milburn Stone, who played the role of Doc Adams on Gunsmoke Western series.
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Madge Blake did not begin to study acting until she was 50 years old, when she enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse and took advantage of whatever influence or contacts Milburn Stone had to land acting roles.
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Madge Blake portrayed gushy gossip columnist Dora Bailey in Singin' in the Rain.
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Madge Blake was a model for one of the fairies in Walt Disney's animated version film Sleeping Beauty.
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Madge Blake appeared as Mrs Porter, a babysitter, in the 1959 pilot of CBS's Dennis the Menace.
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Between 1957 and 1963, Madge Blake had a recurring role as Flora MacMichael, the romantic interest of Walter Brennan's Grandpa Amos McCoy on The Real McCoys, a sitcom about a mountain family that relocated to Southern California.
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Madge Blake played Millie Brinkerhoff in the episode "Instant Wedding" in the 1963 NBC military drama The Lieutenant starring Gary Lockwood in the title role, and Larry Mondello's mother on Leave It to Beaver.
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Madge Blake appeared in the pilot episode of The Addams Family as Miss Comstock, an official from the Addams' children's school.
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Madge Blake appeared in a memorable episode of I Love Lucy in 1957 with George Reeves guest-starring as Superman and in an earlier episode in 1954 as store clerk Mrs Mulford.
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Madge Blake played the mother of Joey Barnes on The Joey Bishop Show from 1961 to 1964.
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Madge Blake was admitted to Huntington Memorial Hospital where she died at age 69, the result of a heart attack.
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Madge Blake was interred beside her mother in the family plot at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.