Spoiler : Born in Chicago, Illinois 2/17/1919; died 8/23/2001 of lung cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Freeman was the daughter of a husband-and-wife vaudevillle team. Freeman was never married. She studied music at University of California in Los Angeles, and began acting at that time. Screen debut in Naked City (1947). Last movie was Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000). Character actress on television from the middle 1950s until the year before she died.

Spoiler : Katie the maid on Topper for CBS-TV (1954-1955). Marilly on syndicated tele- vision series, Mayor Of The Town (1954). Mrs. Wilgus on The Donna Reed Show for ABC-TV (1958-1960). Mrs. Boss on It's About Time for CBS-TV (1966-1967). Flo Shafer on The Beverly Hillbillies for CBS-TV (1969-1971). Kate Harwell on Funny Face for CBS-TV (1971). Mrs. Belmont on Lotsa Luck for NBC-TV (1973-74). Provided her voice for Mrs Crackshell on the syndicated television animated series, Ducktales (1989-1990). Sister Mary Dorothy on the ABC-TV soap, General Hospital (1991). Provided her voice for Miss Eugenia P. Kisskillya on Detention (1999).