Rosemary DeCamp
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.
She appeared in the 1961 Rawhide episode, "Incident Near Gloomy River". In 1962, she played a dishonest Southern belle in the NBC sitcom Ensign O'Toole with Dean Jones. She appeared in the role of Gertrude Komack on ABC's medical drama Breaking Point in the episode entitled "A Little Anger is a Good Thing".
DeCamp had a recurring role as Helen Marie, the mother of Marlo Thomas's character on the ABC sitcom That Girl from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's three daughters.
DeCamp made several appearances as the mother of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family from 1970–1973. She also played The Fairy Godmother in the 1980s TV show, The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother.
DeCamp played Buck Rogers' mother in flashback scenes of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Guardians".
On July 7, 1946, her Beverly Hills home was damaged when struck by a wing after the experimental XF-11 piloted by Howard Hughes (re-created in the 2004 movie, The Aviator) crashed nearby. Although a piece of the wing and a part of the neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7541 |
| Birthday | 1910-11-14 |
| Place of Birth | Prescott, Arizona, USA |
| Also Known As | Rosemary Shirley DeCamp, |
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
7.017/237
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1981
Saturday the 14th
5.068/111
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Openin...
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Saturday the 14th
1947
Nora Prentiss
6.217/23
Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become h...
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Nora Prentiss
1952
Scandal Sheet
7/69
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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Scandal Sheet
1951
On Moonlight Bay
6.453/32
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across...
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On Moonlight Bay
1960
13 Ghosts
5.8/168
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doc...
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13 Ghosts
1945
Danger Signal
6/16
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles...
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Danger Signal
1945
Rhapsody in Blue
6.6/18
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
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Rhapsody in Blue
1943
This Is the Army
5.7/25
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son...
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This Is the Army
1949
The Story of Seabiscuit
6.036/14
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Wo...
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The Story of Seabiscuit
1955
Strategic Air Command
6.112/49
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
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Strategic Air Command
1953
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
6.136/22
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and trib...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1941
Hold Back the Dawn
6.7/51
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...
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Hold Back the Dawn
1955
Many Rivers to Cross
6.5/19
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this...
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Many Rivers to Cross
1945
Pride of the Marines
6.8/14
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wif...
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Pride of the Marines
1952
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
6/6
Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's adopt...
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1942
Eyes in the Night
6.111/36
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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Eyes in the Night
1949
Look for the Silver Lining
6.143/7
After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's e...
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Look for the Silver Lining
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
6.5/14
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1949
Night Unto Night
5.444/9
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by inc...
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Night Unto Night
1946
From This Day Forward
5.4/13
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has no...
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From This Day Forward
1944
The Merry Monahans
5.333/6
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself...
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The Merry Monahans
1950
The Big Hangover
6.4/6
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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The Big Hangover
1949
The Life of Riley
8/2
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-fa...
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The Life of Riley
1953
So This Is Love
4.333/6
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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So This Is Love
1937
The Wayward Pups
6.75/4
The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.
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The Wayward Pups
1955
Man on a Bus
5/3
Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded ov...
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Man on a Bus
1942
Jungle Book
6.365/115
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including...
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Jungle Book
1944
Practically Yours
7/1
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembe...
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Practically Yours
1943
City Without Men
5.7/3
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she...
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City Without Men
1951
Night Into Morning
6/12
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
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Night Into Morning
1942
Commandos Strike at Dawn
5.5/24
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocitie...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
Smith of Minnesota
9/1
This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interv...
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Smith of Minnesota
1953
Main Street to Broadway
7.333/3
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...
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Main Street to Broadway
1945
Too Young to Know
7/1
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
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Too Young to Know
1978
The Time Machine
5/8
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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The Time Machine
1960
Tom, Dick and Harriet
0/0
Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's or...
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
1944
Bowery to Broadway
10/1
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
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Bowery to Broadway
1946
Two Guys from Milwaukee
4.9/9
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the micro...
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop
5.8/20
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only op...
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
1945
Blood on the Sun
5.881/42
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japa...
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Blood on the Sun
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
6/5
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1980
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
0/0
Deep in the Enchanted Forest a wondrous lady weaves tales of fantasy-the famed Fairy Godmother, Rosemary De Camp plays the Godmother, a delightfully e...
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