Background
Mitchell was born in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Sam Mitchell and his wife.
Mitchell was born in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Sam Mitchell and his wife.
University of Toledo. University of Michigan.
Following a move to Chicago, Mitchell appeared in the network broadcast of The First Nighter and played small parts in various soap operas including The Story of Mary Marlin and The Road of Life. After she relocated to Los Angeles, she played opposite Joan Davis and Jack Haley in The Sealtest Village Store. She also starred as Louella in The Life of Riley and joined the cast of Fibber McGee and Molly as Alice Darling in 1943.
She also played in The Charlotte Greenwood Show.
Her most prominent radio role was that of the charismatic Southern belle Leila Ransom on The Great Gildersleeve radio show beginning in September 1942. She was the last surviving recurring adult cast member following the deaths of Doris Singleton in 2012 and Peggy Rea in 2011.
Between 1963-1965 she made five appearances on Perry Mason, including in the 1965 episode "The Case of the Carefree Coronary", when she played Marilyn David, the widow of a murder victim. In 1964 she played the role of murder victim Elizabeth Bain, although her character was only heard, not seen, in "The Case of the Woeful Widower."
From 1965-1967, she appeared as neighbor Marge Thornton on National Broadcasting Company"s series Please Don"t Eat the Daisies.
She went on to appear in several television shows of the 1960s (like Petticoat Junction, as "Cousin Mae" in 1968) & did voiceover work in subsequent decades.
In the late 1970s Mitchell appeared alongside Don Porter in an episode of Three"s Company.