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Rosemary DeCamp
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BirthplacePrescott, Arizona, USA
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Rosemary DeCamp

Actor· 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.

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Filmography

32 credits across 1 departments.

YearTitleRoleType
1981Saturday the 14thAunt LucilleFilm
1978The Time MachineAgnesFilm
196013 GhostsHilda ZorbaFilm
1955Strategic Air CommandMrs. ThorneFilm
1955Many Rivers to CrossLucy HamiltonFilm
1955The Bob Cummings ShowMargaret MacDonaldTV
1953By the Light of the Silvery MoonAlice WinfieldFilm
1952Scandal SheetCharlotte GrantFilm
1952The Treasure of Lost CanyonSamuellaFilm
1951On Moonlight BayAlice WinfieldFilm
1950The Big HangoverClaire BellcapFilm
1949Look for the Silver LiningMom MillerFilm
1949The Story of SeabiscuitMrs. Charles S. HowardFilm
1949Night Unto NightThalia ShawnFilm
1949The Life of RileyPeg RileyTV
1947Nora PrentissLucy TalbotFilm
1946From This Day ForwardMartha BeesleyFilm
1945Blood on the SunEdith MillerFilm
1945Danger SignalDr. Jane SillaFilm
1945Pride of the MarinesVirginia PfeifferFilm
1945Rhapsody in BlueRose GershwinFilm
1945Week-End at the WaldorfAnnaFilm
1944The Merry MonahansLillian DeRoyceFilm
1944Practically YoursEllen MacyFilm
1943This Is the ArmyEthel JonesFilm
1942Jungle BookMessuaFilm
1942Yankee Doodle DandyNellie CohanFilm
1942Eyes in the NightVera HoffmanFilm
1942Commandos Strike at DawnHilma ArnesenFilm
1941Hold Back the DawnBerta KurzFilm
1941Cheers for Miss BishopMinna FieldsFilm
1937The Wayward PupsLady of the house (voice) (uncredited)Film

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