Katharine Elizabeth Garde[1] (September 19, 1905 – December 25, 1989) was an American stage, radio, film and television actress.

[3][4] After joining CBS in 1933,[2] Garde began to work extensively in radio, performing on some three dozen shows including Lorenzo Jones, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, The Big Story, The Eddie Cantor Show (on which she played "all the women roles"),[2] Front Page Farrell, Maudie's Diary, Perry Mason, Theatre Guild on the Air and The Fat Man.

[5] Garde's first three credited Hollywood film roles are in the early "talkies" The Lady Lies (1929), Damaged Love (1930), and Queen High (1930).

[6] Among her more notable later performances are in the film noir productions Call Northside 777 (1948), in which she plays a prosecution witness whose testimony convicts an innocent man; in Cry of the City (1948) as Miss Pruett; and in Caged (1950), as a murderous prison inmate.

[7] Garde also made appearances on The Honeymooners as the Kramdens' maid, Thelma; on The Real McCoys as a farmer, Aggie Larkin; on The Untouchables, as a maid in an episode starring Elizabeth Montgomery ("The Rusty Heller Story"); and on two episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "The Midnight Sun", opposite Lois Nettleton.