1. Sylvia Field was best known for playing the understanding Mrs Martha Wilson on the television sitcom Dennis the Menace on CBS from 1959 to 1962.
11 Facts About Sylvia Field
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Sylvia Field made her Broadway debut at age 17 in 1918 in The Betrothal.
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Sylvia Field began appearing in guest spots on television in the late 1940s.
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In 1959, Sylvia Field began appearing in her most noted role as Martha Wilson in the CBS sitcom Dennis the Menace.
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Sylvia Field's character was written out of the series in 1962 owing to the death of Joseph Kearns, who portrayed George Wilson, Martha's husband.
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Sylvia Field continued in television guest spots during the 1960s, including on the ABC sitcoms Our Man Higgins and Hazel.
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In 1966, Sylvia Field appeared on Petticoat Junction as Laura Bentley in the episode "Young Love".
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Sylvia Field made her final onscreen appearance in Kathleen Collins' 1980 film The Cruz Brothers and Mrs Malloy.
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In 1941, Sylvia Field married actor Ernest Truex, to whom she remained married for 32 years until Truex's death in 1973.
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Sylvia Field was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.
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On July 31,1998, Sylvia Field died at a nursing home in Fallbrook, California, at age 97.