JEANNE BATES as Nurse Wills in BEN CASEY a tribute

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radio, films, television and the theatre that spanned nearly eight decades. Born May 21, 1918, in Berkeley, she began appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco while attending San Mateo Junior College, played the lead [and supplied the signature scream] on the mystery series "Whodunit?." She married the program's writer, Lew X. Lansworth, in 1943, two years after the show moved to Hollywood. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, Bates made her film debut starring in the 1943 Boston ...