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Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp

Known for
Acting
Born
November 14, 1910, Prescott, Arizona, USA
Died
February 20, 2001
Movies
43

Rosemary DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress. DeCamp first came to fame in November 1937, when she took the role of Judy Price, the secretary/nurse of Dr. Christian in the long-running radio series of the same name. She also played in The Career of Alice Blair, a transcribed syndicated soap opera that ran in 1939–1940.

She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, This Is The Army playing the wife of George Murphy and the mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue, and Nora Prentiss. She played the mother of the character played by Sabu Dastagir in Jungle Book. In 1951 and 1953, respectively, she starred in the nostalgic musical films On Moonlight Bay and its sequel, By The Light Of The Silvery Moon, as Alice Winfield, Doris Day's mother, opposite Leon Ames.

DeCamp played Peg Riley in the first television version of The Life of Riley opposite Jackie Gleason in the 1949–1950 season, then reprised the role on radio with original star William Bendix for an episode of Lux Radio Theater in 1950. From 1955–1959, she was a regular on the popular NBC television comedy The Bob Cummings Show, playing Margaret MacDonald, widowed sister of Cummings's character, the lothario photographer and former World War II pilot Bob Collins. Dwayne Hickman (future star of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) portrayed her son, Chuck.

Best-Known Movies

Filmography

1981Saturday the 14thAunt Lucille
1980The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1978The Time MachineAgnes
196013 GhostsHilda Zorba
1960Tom, Dick and HarrietMother
1955Man on a BusMiriam
1955Strategic Air CommandMrs. Thorne
1955Many Rivers to CrossLucy Hamilton
1953Main Street to BroadwayMrs. Harry Craig
1953So This Is LoveAunt Laura Stokley
1953By the Light of the Silvery MoonAlice Winfield
1952The Treasure of Lost CanyonSamuella
1952Scandal SheetCharlotte Grant
1951On Moonlight BayAlice Winfield
1951Night Into MorningMrs. Annie Ainley
1950The Big HangoverClaire Bellcap
1949The Story of SeabiscuitMrs. Charles S. Howard
1949Look for the Silver LiningMom Miller
1949Night Unto NightThalia Shawn
1949The Life of RileyPeg Riley
1947Nora PrentissLucy Talbot
1946Two Guys from MilwaukeeNan
1946From This Day ForwardMartha Beesley
1945Too Young to KnowMrs. Enright
1945Danger SignalDr. Jane Silla
1945Week-End at the WaldorfAnna
1945Pride of the MarinesVirginia Pfeiffer
1945Rhapsody in BlueRose Gershwin
1945Blood on the SunEdith Miller
1944Practically YoursEllen Macy
1944Bowery to BroadwayBessie Kirby
1944The Merry MonahansLillian DeRoyce
1943The Voice That Thrilled the WorldSelf (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
1943This Is the ArmyEthel Jones
1943City Without MenMrs. Slade
1942Commandos Strike at DawnHilma Arnesen
1942Eyes in the NightVera Hoffman
1942Smith of MinnesotaMrs. Smith (uncredited)
1942Yankee Doodle DandyNellie Cohan
1942Jungle BookMessua
1941Hold Back the DawnBerta Kurz
1941Cheers for Miss BishopMinna Fields
1937The Wayward PupsLady of the house (voice) (uncredited)

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