Career
She appeared in more than 50 films between 1934 and 1953. McHugh is familiar to modern viewers from her appearances in the Three Stooges short subjects Hoi Polloi, Listen, Judge, and Gents in a Jam. lieutenant was in the latter film that she portrayed Mistress
McGruder, the Stooges" irate landlady who delivers the trio a triple slap and a right hook to wrestler Rocky Duggan (Mickey Simpson).
McHugh committed suicide on September 3, 1954.