 This marks the second time that Mary Wickes (qv) portrayed the  nurse Miss Preen in a screen production of "The Man Who Came to  Dinner", although this was a television, and not a theatrical film  version. Counting the 1954 and 1972 television versions, as well as  the original 1939 Broadway version, the 1941 film and this 1948 TV  version, Wickes played Miss Preen in no less than five different  major productions of the play.