Kathleen Freeman was an American character actress, best remembered for her role as a voice teacher in the 1952 film ‘Singing in the Rain’. In a career spanning five decades, she appeared in around 100 movies, the most successful of which were with Jerry Lewis. She also worked in numerous television shows and stage productions. Throughout her career, she played the roles of maids, secretaries, teachers, nuns, nurses, prying neighbors and relatives, invariably giving a comic touch to each of her characters. Although she was never considered for a lead role, she did not regret working as a supporting cast. In an interview in January 2001, barely months before her death from lung cancer, she summed up her feelings, saying: “I'm a living example of the fact that you don't have to be in every inch of a film or play (the lead) to be important to it.”