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Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp

Actor · 1910 – 2001 · Prescott, Arizona, USA

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.7

    Hold Back the Dawn

    1941 · 51 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Nora Prentiss

    1947 · 23 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942 · 237 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Jungle Book

    1942 · 116 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Many Rivers to Cross

    1955 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.8

    13 Ghosts

    1960 · 168 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Saturday the 14th

    1981 · 111 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Blood on the Sun

    1945 · 42 votes

  • Movie5.7

    This Is the Army

    1943 · 25 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Scandal Sheet

    1952 · 69 votes

  • Movie5.4

    From This Day Forward

    1946 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Story of Seabiscuit

    1949 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Eyes in the Night

    1942 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Week-End at the Waldorf

    1945 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Night Unto Night

    1949 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.5

    On Moonlight Bay

    1951 · 32 votes

  • Movie4.3

    So This Is Love

    1953 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.8

    Pride of the Marines

    1945 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie4.9
  • Movie7.3
  • Movie7.0

    Too Young to Know

    1945 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    1942 · 24 votes

Series24

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Rockford Files

    1974 · 133 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Red Skelton Show

    1951 · 19 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV6.7

    Simon & Simon

    1981 · 99 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Partridge Family

    1970 · 35 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV7.8
  • TV6.2

    That Girl

    1966 · 35 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.3

    The Bob Cummings Show

    1955 · 8 votes