 Tuttle became a familiar face to millions of television viewers with more than 100 appearances from 1950 to 1986, often in the role of an inquisitive busybody.On television and in films, Tuttle streamlined herself into a pattern of roles between wise, loving wives/mothers or bristling matrons.She was familiar to the early television audience as wife/mother Lavinia (Vinnie) Day in "Life with Father" (1953–1955).