Background
Perry was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Perry was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
She began her film career in 1933, when she appeared in Counsellor at Law. She also had a small part in The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1935. By the mid-1950s to the early-1960s, she started appearing in numerous television series such as The Donna Reed Show, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons and The Dick Van Dyke Show, where she played Buddy Sorrell"s wife Pickles, before being replaced by Joan Shawlee.
She also played Thelma Brockwood on The Hathaways.
As of 2014, Perry is still acting on television and in films.