Josephine Hutchinson Miss Mamie in The Homecoming

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~ Josephine Hutchinson ~ October 12-1903-June 4-1998


Josephine was born October 12th, 1903 in Seattle, Washington. She studied at the Seattle's Cornish School as a child where she played in "The Little Princess" (1917). When in her early twenties she worked in New York at the Civic Repertory Theater. She then moved to Hollywood in 1934 and appeared in her first movie "Happiness Ahead" .It was around 1955 when she appeared in her first TV show "Gunsmoke". Her last known movie was "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story". And her last known TV guest appearance was in "Little House on the Prairie" (1974).

She married first to James F. Townsend on April 12th, 1924, later divorced him on July 7th, 1930. Her second husband she married in 1935 who she later divorced. Her third husband was Robert Bell. It is believed that she then married in 1972 a forth time to Staats Cotsworth. born February 17, 1908 and died April 9th, 1979.

Josephine died at the Manhattan's Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in New York on June 4th, 1998. It is not known if she had any children.