Tall, plain-looking, wide-eyed, slender-figured American character
player who very much did for
Ann Sothern on her various 50s sitcom outings
as
Vivian Vance did for
Lucille Ball. As Sothern's "Nervous Nellie" sidekick and
confidante on
Private Secretary (1953) and
The Ann Sothern Show (1958), Tyrell made more of an impression
than she did earlier in films playing officious clerk and secretary
types. She retired a few years after the end of the second series.