Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the vicious Ma Baker on the series "Gang Busters." Born Eugenia Bartness, she was raised in a prominent theatrical family. He parents Leslie and Bessie Bartness were the founders, and managers, of the Models Players Stock Company. After years of working as a stage actress, she settled in California in the late 1930s and began working as a radio actress, lending her voice to such programs as "Lux Radio Theatre," "The Screen Guild Players," "Meet Corliss Archer," "Fibber McGee and Molly," "Suspense," "My Friend Irma," "Inner Sanctum Mysteries," "Abbott and Costello," "The Adventures of Ellery Queery," "Dick Tracy," "Escape," and "Philip Morris Playhouse." After being introduced to director George Blair during a dinner party at the home of Hillary Brooke, he was so impressed by her charm, poise, and distinctive voice, that he arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her being under his supervision in a minor role in "Insurance Investigator" (1951). From there, she would go on to flourish as a recognizable character actress appearing in over 35 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, old maids, housekeepers, faithful servants, educators, retail clerks, salesladies, nurses, secretaries, snobs, chaperones, historical figures, white-collared workers, matrons, eccentrics, landladies, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "Chicago Calling" (1951), "Women's Prison" (1955), "The Sold Gold Cadillac" (1956), "Band of Angels" (1957), and "City of Fear" (1959). During the advent of television, she became a familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Gruen Guild Theatre," "The Roy Rogers Show," "I Led 3 Lives," "The Millionaire," "Telephone Time," "Science Fiction Theatre," "Highway Patrol," "The Man Called X," "December Bride," "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "The Restless Gun," "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," "Lawman," "Wagon Train," "Rawhide," "Rescue 8," "The Untouchables," "Johnny Staccato," and "Perry Mason." During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was an active parishioner of the Presbyterian church, had been a supporter of the California State Democratic Committee, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and the Reiss-Davis Clinic for Child Guidance, and she was married to fellow actor Don C. Harvey from 1934 until his death in 1963 (their union produced no children). After retiring from acting following the death of her husband, Harvey spent the remainder of her life living comfortably in the suburbs where she spent her time focusing on charitable and religious causes until her own death from the complications of arteriosclerosis.