Barbara Perry

Barbara Perry was an American actress, singer and dancer whose work in Hollywood and on Broadway spanned 84 years. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, she made her film debut in Counsellor at Law (1933), and in 1935 she appeared in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She appeared in Broadway plays including Swan Song and If the Shoe Fits in 1946, Happy as Larry in 1950 and Rumple in 1957, and trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art while also appearing in Zip Goes a Million. She went on to many television series, among them Perry Mason, The Donna Reed Show and The Andy Griffith Show, along with My Three Sons and The Dick Van Dyke Show, where she played Pickles, Buddy Sorrell's wife, before Joan Shawlee replaced her. In 1981 she wrote and performed the one-woman Broadway show Passionate Ladies. Her last known role was in Baskets in 2017.