Helen Kleeb

She was an actress, known for Seven Days in May (1964), The Party (1968) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). She was married to Elmer Garrison and John Gerald Prendergast.

She appeared in episodes of Dennis the Menace, I Love Lucy, Pete and Gladys, Hennesey, Death Valley Days, Get Smart, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, Bewitched, Little House: A New Beginning, Highway to Heaven, Room 222, and The Golden Girls as well as in small film roles in The Manchurian Candidate, and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She also appeared in a number of episodes of Dragnet, starring Jack Webb, during the 1950s as well as Helen appeared on many radio drama shows, some now playing on XM Satellite Radio.

From 1949 to 1951, she performed voices for the radio program Candy Matson. In 1956–1957, Kleeb guest-starred on Hey, Jeannie!, starring Jeannie Carson. In the 1960–1961 television season, Kleeb appeared as Miss Claridge, a legal secretary, on the sitcom Harrigan and Son.

Kleeb married Elmer Garrison in 1959. She died in 2003, nine days before her 97th birthday, in Los Angeles, California. She reportedly left no known survivors other than her second husband, although many sources said that she had a son from her first marriage to John Gerald Pendergast, which ended with his death in 1950. According to California birth records, Thomas Arthur Pendergrast was born to a mother with the last name Kleeb on 13 May 1940 in San Francisco, California. Helen and John Prendergast were enumerated in April 1940 in San Francisco.

Kleeb began acting on stage in Portland, Oregon, late in the 1920s, where she attended the Ellison-White Conservatory of Music. She also gained her first radio experience in Portland.

Helen Kleeb was born on January 6, 1907 in South Bend, Washington, USA.

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