Actress. A popular character performer, her career began late in her senior years with roles on television and motion pictures in the 1940s to 1960s. Among her film credits were “A Fig Leaf for Eve” (1944), “The Fat Man” (1951), “The Legend of Tom Dooley” (1959), “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” (1962) and “Sex and the Single Girl” (1964). For television, she was a regular on “Rawhide”, “Bonanza”, “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Petticoat Junction” and “The Andy Griffith Show”. (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith)  Family links:  Children:  Josef Hoffman Meredith (1920 – 2007)* *Calculated relationship