Jacqueline deWit

Jacqueline deWit was an American character actress of film and television who was born in Los Angeles and appeared in more than two dozen movies. Her film work included Spellbound (1945), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Tea and Sympathy (1956) and Harper (1966), and she played Bud Abbott's wife in the 1946 Abbott and Costello comedy Little Giant. On television she appeared in Wagon Train, The Lineup and The Monkees, and she was most notable for the 1959 Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last, as the nagging wife of Burgess Meredith's character. Her Broadway credits included The Taming of the Shrew in 1935, and on radio she portrayed Ruth Thompson on Meet Mr. McNultey and Valerie on Second Husband, later reprising the Thompson role on The Ray Milland Show, the television version of Meet Mr. McNultey.