Personal Info
Birth date
1919-11-13 (105 Years)
Day of death
1995-08-27
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Alton, Illinois, USA
Also known as
Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes
Biography
Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919) – August 27, 1995) was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies.
Filmography
Dragnet
6.4
Overview:
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Overview:
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Rawhide
7.13
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.838
Overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.The Abbott and Costello Show
7.053
Overview:
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.Public Defender
6
Overview:
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.Racket Squad
6
Overview:
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".The Women
7.152
Overview:
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.The Thin Man
7.6
Overview:
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.December Bride
5.5
Overview:
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.The Hollywood Palace
4.5
Overview:
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.The Ox-Bow Incident
7.704
Overview:
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.Timber Queen
5.7
Overview:
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.Sleepers West
6.3
Overview:
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.The Great Flamarion
6.19
Overview:
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.Melody Parade
NYR
Overview:
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.Highway Dragnet
5.8
Overview:
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.Riders in the Sky
5.2
Overview:
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.Fast and Furious
5.1
Overview:
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.Orchestra Wives
6
Overview:
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.Charlie Chan in Rio
6.2
Overview:
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.The Kid From Texas
6.5
Overview:
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.Over My Dead Body
NYR
Overview:
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.Acting
1974The Working Girls as Mrs. Borden
1971How's Your Love Life? as Linda Roberts
1971The Blue Hour as Unknown
1964The Hollywood Palace (1 Episode) as Self
1959Rawhide (1, 1 Episode) as Sarah, Lola
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive (1 Episode) as Dolly King
1958No Time at All as Mrs. Leeds
1957Gun Battle at Monterey as Cleo
1957The Thin Man (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Dig That Uranium as Jeanette, the waitress
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Las Vegas Shakedown as Mabel Dooley
1954December Bride (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Loophole as Vera
1954Public Defender (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Highway Dragnet as Terry Smith - Bar Girl
1952The Abbott and Costello Show (1 Episode) as Dixie King
1951Dragnet (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Close to My Heart as Arlene
1951Racket Squad (1 Episode) as Unknown
1950Holiday Rhythm as Alice
1950Young Man with a Horn as Marge Martin
1949Riders in the Sky as Julie Stewart
1949Square Dance Jubilee as Barbara Clayton
1949The Devil's Henchman as Silky
1949Grand Canyon as Terry Lee
1949Rimfire as Polly
1949El Paso as Stagecoach Nellie
1948Last of the Wild Horses as Terry Williams
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Ginger Ferris
1948Inner Sanctum as Jean Maxwell
1948The Philco Television Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1948Joe Palooka in Winner Take All as Millie
1948The Return of Wildfire as Judy Marlowe
1948Waterfront at Midnight as Ethel Novack
1948Caged Fury as Lola Tremaine
1945The Lady Confesses as Vicki McGuire
1945Rockin' in the Rockies as June McGuire
1945The Great Flamarion as Connie Wallace
1944I Accuse My Parents as Kitty Reed
1944Take It Big as Gaye Livingston
1944Men on Her Mind as Lily Durrell
1944Timber Queen as Elaine Graham
1943Never a Dull Moment as Flo Parker
1943Melody Parade as Anne O'Rourke
1943Good Morning, Judge as Mira Bryon
1943Follow the Band as Dolly O'Brien
1943The Ox-Bow Incident as Rose Mapen/Rose Swanson
1942Orchestra Wives as Caroline Steele
1942The Night Before the Divorce as Lola May
1942Over My Dead Body as Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
1942Blue, White, and Perfect as Merle Garland
1941Design for Scandal as Adele Blair
1941Charlie Chan in Rio as Joan Reynolds
1941Dressed to Kill as Joanne La Marre
1941The Cowboy and the Blonde as Crystal Wayne
1941Ride on Vaquero as Sally Slocum
1941Sleepers West as Helen Carlson
1940The Great Profile as Sylvia Manners
1940Lucky Cisco Kid as Lola
1940Four Sons as Anna
1940Star Dust as June Lawrence
1940Free, Blonde and 21 as Jerry Daily
1939The Covered Trailer as Betty Higgins
1939Fast and Furious as Jerry Lawrence
1939Dancing Co-Ed as "Toddy" Tobin
1939The Women as Miss Trimmerback
1939These Glamour Girls as Ann
1939Bridal Suite as Bride
1939The Kid From Texas as Polo Match Spectator
1939Broadway Serenade as Girl at Party (uncredited)
1939Within the Law as Mamie (voice)