IVA SHEPARD

April 23, 1886

Iva Shepard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She became a silent film actress making her screen debut in the silent short The Wife of Marcius (1910). Her most notable film roles were in The Romance of an Actor (1914), as Zoe Trevor in The Haunted Manor (1916), and as Nettie Lea in The Isle of Love (1916).  Her final film was The Street of Seven Stars (1918). 

Shepard came out of retirement for “I Love Lucy,” making her sound film debut in “Don Juan and the Starlets” (ILL S4;E17) filmed on December 9, 1954 and first aired on February 14, 1955. She played a hotel maid who is put on the spot to vouch for Ricky when Lucy suspects he stayed out all night with starlets. 

She returned to the series to play a hospital nurse in “Nursery School” (ILL S5;E9) filmed on November 3, 1955 and first aired December 5, 1955. This would be her last screen appearance. 

In between the two episodes of “I Love Lucy” she did only one other TV appearance: on “Death Valley Days” on October 24, 1955. 

She was married to Lyle Clement and Joseph Singleton. 

She died on January 26, 1973 at age 86.