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
Credits
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Agnes
- 1982 · St. Elsewhere as Amy Jeffries
- 1982 · Hotel as
- 1981 · Simon & Simon as
- 1981 · Saturday the 14th as Aunt Lucille
- 1979 · Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Buck's Mother
- 1979 · Blind Ambition as Maureen Dean's Mother
- 1979 · B. J. and the Bear as
- 1978 · The Time Machine as Agnes
- 1977 · We've Got Each Other as
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Cynthia Loudon
- 1976 · Quincy, M.E. as
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Mary Ramsey
- 1974 · Petrocelli as Mrs. Drew
- 1973 · Police Story as
- 1970 · Night Gallery as
- 1969 · Love, American Style as Mrs. Kearn
- 1969 · Love, American Style as Old Martha Pomerantz
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1966 · That Girl as
- 1964 · The Baileys of Balboa as
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as Emily Mapes
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as Aunt Helen
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Mrs. Franklin
- 1963 · Breaking Point as
- 1962 · The Beverly Hillbillies as Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
- 1962 · Ensign O'Toole as Leona
- 1961 · Hazel as Sybil
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Angela Faring
- 1961 · 87th Precinct as
- 1960 · 13 Ghosts as Hilda Zorba
- 1960 · Tom, Dick and Harriet as Mother
- 1959 · Rawhide as Margaret Fletcher
- 1959 · Rawhide as Mrs. Armstrong
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1955 · Strategic Air Command as Mrs. Thorne
- 1955 · Man on a Bus as Miriam
- 1955 · Many Rivers to Cross as Lucy Hamilton
- 1955 · The Bob Cummings Show as Margaret MacDonald
- 1954 · Climax! as Eleanor Farrington
- 1953 · Main Street to Broadway as Mrs. Harry Craig
- 1953 · So This Is Love as Aunt Laura Stokley
- 1953 · By the Light of the Silvery Moon as Alice Winfield
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Maxine
- 1952 · The Ford Television Theatre as
- 1952 · The Ford Television Theatre as Mildred Ledbetter
- 1952 · This Is Your Life as Self
- 1952 · The Treasure of Lost Canyon as Samuella
- 1952 · Scandal Sheet as Charlotte Grant
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Anna Baetz
- 1951 · The Red Skelton Show as Abigail Van Clive
- 1951 · On Moonlight Bay as Alice Winfield
- 1951 · Night Into Morning as Mrs. Annie Ainley
- 1950 · The Big Hangover as Claire Bellcap
- 1949 · The Story of Seabiscuit as Mrs. Charles S. Howard
- 1949 · The Life of Riley as Peg Riley
- 1949 · Look for the Silver Lining as Mom Miller
- 1949 · Night Unto Night as Thalia Shawn
- 1949 · The Life of Riley as Peg Riley
- 1948 · Studio One as Cora Thompson
- 1948 · Studio One as Laura Weber
- 1947 · Nora Prentiss as Lucy Talbot
- 1946 · Two Guys from Milwaukee as Nan
- 1946 · From This Day Forward as Martha Beesley
- 1945 · Too Young to Know as Mrs. Enright
- 1945 · Danger Signal as Dr. Jane Silla
- 1945 · Week-End at the Waldorf as Anna
- 1945 · Pride of the Marines as Virginia Pfeiffer
- 1945 · Rhapsody in Blue as Rose Gershwin
- 1945 · Blood on the Sun as Edith Miller
- 1944 · Practically Yours as Ellen Macy
- 1944 · Bowery to Broadway as Bessie Kirby
- 1944 · The Merry Monahans as Lillian DeRoyce
- 1943 · The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
- 1943 · This Is the Army as Ethel Jones
- 1943 · City Without Men as Mrs. Slade
- 1942 · Commandos Strike at Dawn as Hilma Arnesen
- 1942 · Eyes in the Night as Vera Hoffman
- 1942 · Smith of Minnesota as Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
- 1942 · Yankee Doodle Dandy as Nellie Cohan
- 1942 · Jungle Book as Messua
- 1941 · Hold Back the Dawn as Berta Kurz
- 1941 · Cheers for Miss Bishop as Minna Fields
- 1937 · The Wayward Pups as Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)