Marie Wilson Biography

Fast Facts

• Once pretended to run out of gas outside of a director's house, a ruse that landed her a film role
• Signed her first contract with Warner Bros․ when she was 15 years old
• Made her screen acting debut in the film "Down to Their Last Yacht" in 1934
• Played a comic foil opposite Ken Murray in his stage show "Blackouts," which would run for seven years and 2,332 consecutive performances
• Best known for her role as Irma Peterson in the radio, television, and film series "My Friend Irma․"
• Her role as the beautiful but dim blonde in "My Friend Irma" caused her to be typecast as such in the majority of her other film roles
• Worked as a salesgirl at a department store to support herself during the early years of her career, but was fired because she would mark down prices for customers who were short of cash