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Rosemary Shirley DeCamp
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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1910-11-14
- event Death Date 2001-02-20
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 1.3
- info Birth Place Prescott, Arizona, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Rosemary DeCamp
7.1
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29
5
Saturday the 14th
1981-10-30
6.1
Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
7
Scandal Sheet
1952-01-16
6.4
On Moonlight Bay
1951-07-26
5.8
13 Ghosts
1960-07-18
5.8
Danger Signal
1945-11-21
6.4
Rhapsody in Blue
1945-06-27
5.8
This Is the Army
1943-08-14
5.8
The Story of Seabiscuit
1949-11-12
6.1
Strategic Air Command
1955-07-12
5.8
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953-03-26
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
6.2
Many Rivers to Cross
1955-02-04
6.5
Pride of the Marines
1945-08-24
5.6
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952-03-01
5.9
Eyes in the Night
1942-10-16
5.7
Look for the Silver Lining
1949-07-30
6
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945-10-04
5.1
Night Unto Night
1949-06-10
5.2
From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
5.5
The Merry Monahans
1944-09-15
6.1
The Big Hangover
1950-05-26
7
The Life of Riley
1949-04-16
4.5
So This Is Love
1953-07-15
5
The Wayward Pups
1937-07-10
4
Man on a Bus
1955-05-01
6.4
Jungle Book
1942-04-03
0
Practically Yours
1944-12-20
5
City Without Men
1943-01-14
5.8
Night Into Morning
1951-06-08
5.4
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942-12-30
0
Smith of Minnesota
1942-10-15
6.5
Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
0
Too Young to Know
1945-12-01
4.7
The Time Machine
1978-11-05
0
Tom, Dick and Harriet
1960-01-01
0
Bowery to Broadway
1944-11-03
4.8
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946-07-26
5.7
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941-02-21
5.8
Blood on the Sun
1945-04-26
5.3
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
0
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980-05-20
5.5
St. Elsewhere
1982-10-26
6
Burke's Law
1963-09-20
5.5
B. J. and the Bear
1979-02-10
6.3
The Love Boat
1977-09-24
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981-11-24
6.2
That Girl
1966-09-08
6.8
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-09-26
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976-10-03
7
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979-09-20
5.8
Petticoat Junction
1963-09-24
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
6.8
Hotel
1982-08-21
5
Studio One
1948-11-07
6.3
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
6.9
Police Story
1973-03-20
7.5
The Life of Riley
1949-10-04
6.5
This Is Your Life
1952-10-01
3.3
Climax!
1954-10-07
6.5
The Baileys of Balboa
1964-09-19
5
We've Got Each Other
1977-10-01
7.3
Breaking Point
1963-09-16
5.5
Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27
7.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02
6.2
The Bob Cummings Show
1955-01-02
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
1951-09-30
6.8
Hazel
1961-09-28
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
6.5
Ensign O'Toole
1962-09-23
5.8
Petticoat Junction
1963-09-24
5
Studio One
1948-11-07
7.5
The Rockford Files
1974-09-13
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
7.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02
6.1
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
7
Petrocelli
1974-09-11
6.1
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
5
Blind Ambition
1979-05-20
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
7.5
87th Precinct
1961-09-25
7.8
Night Gallery
1970-12-16
6.7
The Partridge Family
1970-09-25
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11