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.
