PATSY MORAN

October 13, 1905

Patsy Moran was born Adeline Alberta Moran in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

She made her film debut in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Block-Heads (1938) as Lulu.  

She quickly followed-up with Laurel and Hardy’s Saps at Sea (1940) as a telephone switchboard operator. 

On radio, she portrayed boarding house owner Martha Hooper, wife of the title character of “Major Hoople” (1942-43). Arthur Q. Bryan (Mr. Chambers on “I Love Lucy”) as Martha’s ne’er do well husband. Conrad Binyon played their son Little Alvin. 

On November 24, 1943, Moran appeared on the radio show “Mail Call” that also featured Lucille Ball, although the two did not interact on the air. Moran did a sketch with her film co-stars Laurel and Hardy called “The Wedding Night.” “Mail Call” was only available to the troops overseas and not broadcast stateside. 

Patsy Moran appeared in MGM’s Meet The People (1943) with Lucille Ball, who played the leading role of Julie Hampton while Moran went uncredited as a homely girl. The film also featured future “Lucy” actors Betty Jaynes, Leon Belasco, Dick Elliott, and Eve Whitney.

Patsy Moran was married to actor and stuntman Pat Moran, who appeared on “I Love Lucy” as Buffo the Clown in “The Audition” (ILL S1;E6) in 1951. Pat and Patsy were both in 1951′s Lemon Drop Kid with William Frawley (Fred Mertz).  

Patsy played the laundry worker who attacks Lucy (hidden in a laundry bag) with a crowbar in “Bonus Bucks” (ILL S3;E21) in 1954. This was her TV debut. Her scene at the Speedy Laundry features a couple of bloopers. When Ricky bursts into the laundry room the crowbar falls off the wall and the Moran has to look for it on the floor.

Second, when one of her co-workers enters to stop her bashing Lucy on the head, a Desilu crew member can be spotted through the open door! 

Her final screen credit was also the final episode of the anthology series “Your Favorite Story” aired on January 13, 1955, hosted by Adolphe Menjou.  

Patsy Moran died on December 10, 1968 at age 65.