Rosemary DeCamp

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Rosemary DeCamp in Blood on the Sun

Rosemary DeCamp (born November 14, 1910 in Prescott , Arizona , † February 20, 2001 in Torrance , California ) was an American actress . Between 1941 and 1989 she was in front of the camera for over 90 film and television productions, where she often played friendly and maternal characters.

life and career

Rosemary DeCamp began her career on the stage and radio and became known in the late 1930s when she played Judy Price , the secretary and assistant to the title character, in the popular Dr. Christian spoke next to Jean Hersholt .

In 1941 she made her film debut in Tay Garnett's drama Cheers for Miss Bishop , after which she appeared in numerous films - especially for Warner Brothers - in the course of the 1940s . Despite her actually attractive appearance, she played characters early on who were much older than herself - for example in the biographies Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, as the mother of George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney ) and in Rhapsody in Blue (1945, as a mother George Gershwin, played by Robert Alda ). In the literary film adaptation of The Jungle Book she was seen in 1942 as the mother of Mowgli; In the films On Moonlight Bay (1951) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) she played the mother of Doris Day . She was a little disappointed about her permanent occupation in maternal roles, as she would have liked to play other roles - in the film Scandalblatt , in which she blackmailed an unscrupulous newspaper editor-in-chief ( Broderick Crawford ) as a poor wife , she had the chance of something more versatile representation.

From the mid-1950s, DeCamp was rarely in front of the camera for movies, instead she starred in numerous television series - for example in a total of 157 episodes of the Bob Cummings Show , which was broadcast on US television from 1955 to 1959, alongside Robert Cummings as his widowed sister. She had previously had a leading role as the wife of William Bendix on the sitcom The Life of Riley . In the 1960s, DeCamp played the mother of the main character played by Marlo Thomas in the sitcom Sweet But A Little Crazy , and in the 1970s she had a recurring role in the television series The Partridge Family as the mother of Shirley Partridge, played by Shirley Jones . After a guest role in Murder is Her Hobby , DeCamp retired from acting in 1989.

Rosemary DeCamp was married to judge John Ashton Shidler from 1941 until his death in 1997, and the couple had four daughters. In 1946, the garage and bedroom of their Spanish colonial-style estate were spectacularly damaged when Howard Hughes' plane crashed there ( this crash was also filmed in the Hughes biopic Aviator ). Rosemary DeCamp died in February 2001 at the age of 90 after developing pneumonia. The actress also published an autobiography titled Tigers in My Lap , to which Doris Day penned the foreword.

Awards

At the 1959 Primetime Emmy Awards , Rosemary DeCamp was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series for the Bob Cummings Show . For her work as a television actress, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 . She also received the Institute of Family Relations Award for having done "more than any other actress to glorify American motherhood through her portrayals."

Filmography (selection)

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Web links

Commons : Rosemary DeCamp  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosemary De Camp at OldTimer Radio
  2. ^ Rosemary de Camp | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Ronald Bergan: Obituary: Rosemary DeCamp . In: The Guardian . March 10, 2001, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Bianca Barragan: Spanish Colonial where Howard Hughes crashed his plane is for sale for $ 14.45M. July 10, 2017, accessed February 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ronald Bergan: Obituary: Rosemary DeCamp . In: The Guardian . March 10, 2001, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 18, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME DeCamp, Rosemary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Prescott , Arizona
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2001
Place of death Torrance , California