Career
Born in Portland, Oregon, Prickett often portrayed maids, busybodies, spinsters, and nosy neighbors. She made ten appearances as recurring character Rosie, a maid, in the 1960s National Broadcasting Company sit-com Hazel starring Shirley Booth, Don DeFore, Whitney Blake, and Bobby Buntrock. One of her most notable film appearances was as a maid named Elsie at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in Alfred Hitchcock"s North by Northwest in 1959.
Other television credits include nine appearances as Mississippi
Gordon on Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Jack Benny Program and five appearances as various characters on American Broadcasting Company"s Bewitched. In 1959, she played a secretary, Mission Sanders, to the Howard McNear character, Wilbur Wilgus, on American Broadcasting Company sitcom, The Donna Reed Show.
Prickett played Alice MacAvity in 1954 in the National Broadcasting Company sitcom lieutenant"s a Great Life, featuring Frances Bavier. She guest-starred in the 1957-1958 National Broadcasting Company sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and on Columbia Broadcasting System"s Dennis the Menace, with Jay North.
She appeared as a dentist"s secretary in the episode "The Dentist" on another Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom, Angel, starring Annie Fargé.
Parley Baer played Doctor Mathews in the episode. Prickett appeared in 1962 in the short-lived American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers sitcom, Room for One More, starring Andrew Duggan, and played a regular character in 1966 on the even more short-lived Tammy Grimes Show. Prickett was cast in the 1950s westerns The Adventures of Kit Carson and 26 Men, true stories of the Arizona Rangers.
She portrayed Mission Taisy, Lois Lane"s nurse in the classic Adventures of Superman series starring George Reeves and Phyllis Coates.
She also appeared in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show as Mistress Edna Larch, as well as Myrtle on Mayberry Rural Free Delivery In 1970 she played the role of Mistress
Thelma Benstead, a rental house landlord on the television series Dragnet. One of her later appearances was in 1974 in Jeanette Nolan"s short-lived Columbia Broadcasting System western series, Dirty Sally.
Prickett died of uremic poisoning in Pasadena, California on April 14, 1976.
She is interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California.