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Madge Blake was an American actress born in Kinsley, Kansas, USA, as Madge Cummings. In 1919, Madge married James Lincoln Blake, and they had a child before their divorce. Her most important works include Batman: The Movie (1966), Leave It to Beaver (1958-1963), Batman (1966-1967), and The Prowler (1951).
Her father, a Methodist circuit rider, discouraged her from working as an actress. She married and worked with her husband on the construction of the detonator for the atomic bomb in Utah during World War II. She and her husband did jobs testing equipment used in the Manhattan Project.
She studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, followed by 20 years of television and film appearances. Madge Blake began her film career at the age of fifty and appeared in the movie Adam's Rib (1949), starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. She continued to work very actively in film and television. She died in Pasadena, California, USA, on February 19, 1969, of a cardiac arrest.
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