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Isabel Randolph (1889–1973) was an American character actress active in radio and film from the 1940s through the 1960s, and in television from the early 1950s to the mid 1960s. Born in 1889 in Illinois, Isabel Randolph had an extensive acting career in regional theater all over the American Midwest, from the pre-WWI era right up through to the start of her radio career in the mid-1930s — for example, she was at the Princess Theater in Des Moine, Iowa, in 1918, and, in 1931, at the Loyola Community Theater in Chicago. Isabel Randolph gained nationwide popularity on the famous radio... MORE

Isabel Randolph (1889–1973) was an American character actress active in radio and film from the 1940s through the 1960s, and in television from the early 1950s to the mid 1960s. Born in 1889 in Illinois, Isabel Randolph had an extensive acting career in regional theater all over the American Midwest, from the pre-WWI era right up through to the start of her radio career in the mid-1930s — for example, she was at the Princess Theater in Des Moine, Iowa, in 1918, and, in 1931, at the Loyola Community Theater in Chicago. Isabel Randolph gained nationwide popularity on the famous radio show Fibber McGee and Molly (on the air 1935-1959), where she began in various "snooty" roles January 13, 1936, eventually becoming the long-running series character, the pompous Mrs. Abigail Uppington, a snooty society matron whom Fibber addressed as "Uppy", and whose pretensions Fibber delighted in deflating. She stayed with the comedy series for many years, but was gone when the show premiered in the Fall of 1943. She also starred as the wife in NBC's soap opera Dan Hardings' Wife (on the air January 20, 1936 thru February 10, 1939), and was in the cast of another NBC soap opera One Man's Family (on LESS