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Born Harriet Louisa Johnson in Allston, Massachusetts, she attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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Sylvia Field
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Career
She was best known for playing the understanding Mistress Martha Wilson on the television sitcom Dennis the Menace on Columbia Broadcasting System from 1959 to 1962. Field began her acting career on the stage.
She made her Broadway debut at age 17 in 1918 in The Betrothal (1918).
After appearing in various stage productions, Field made her film debut in the 1928 drama The Home Girl. Field began appearing in guest spots on television in the late 1940s.
In 1949, she starred in a locally produced sitcom about her life, The Truex Family. In 1952, she landed the role of Mistress
Remington in the sitcom Mister Peepers.
The show, which aired until 1955, co-starred Field"s real-life husband Ernest Truex. After the end of Mr. Peepers, Field continued to guest star on episodic television, including in roles on Producers" Showcase, Star Tonight, General Electric Theater, and The Ann Sothern Show. In 1959, Field began appearing as Martha Wilson in the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom Dennis the Menace.
Field"s character was written out of the series in 1962 owing to the death of Joseph Kearns, who portrayed George Wilson, Martha"s husband.
Field continued in television guest spots during the 1960s, including on the American Broadcasting Company sitcoms Our Manitoba Higgins with Stanley Holloway and Hazel. She made her final onscreen appearance in a 1975 episode of Columbia Broadcasting System"s Harry O starring David Janssen.
On July 31, 1998, Field died at a nursing home in Fallbrook, California. She was 97.
