Rosemary DeCamp
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 14, 1910
Deathday: February 20, 2001
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Overview: A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Saturday the 14th
1981-10-30
Saturday the 14th
Overview: After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Scandal Sheet
1952-01-16
Scandal Sheet
Overview: A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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On Moonlight Bay
1951-07-26
On Moonlight Bay
Overview: The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-26
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13 Ghosts
1960-07-18
13 Ghosts
Overview: Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property they have also inherited the occultist's collection of 13 ghosts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-18
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Danger Signal
1945-11-21
Danger Signal
Overview: After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Rhapsody in Blue
1945-06-27
Rhapsody in Blue
Overview: Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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This Is the Army
1943-08-14
This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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The Story of Seabiscuit
1949-11-12
The Story of Seabiscuit
Overview: Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill. Written by Ray Hamel
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-12
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Strategic Air Command
1955-07-12
Strategic Air Command
Overview: Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953-03-26
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Overview: Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Many Rivers to Cross
1955-02-04
Many Rivers to Cross
Overview: Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-04
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Pride of the Marines
1945-08-24
Pride of the Marines
Overview: Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-24
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952-03-01
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
Overview: Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's adopted by eccentric 'Doc' Brown, retired miner and pharmacist. Doc and David become fast friends in their scenic outdoor rambles. But when they discover a hidden treasure, the idyllic interlude gives way to more troubles and a strange coincidence.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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Eyes in the Night
1942-10-16
Eyes in the Night
Overview: Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Look for the Silver Lining
1949-07-30
Look for the Silver Lining
Overview: After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's enormous talent, and before long she's performing on Broadway. There, she is extremely successful and finds love with songwriter Frank Carter. Yet obstacles remain for the rising star, especially when he proposes marriage just before he's set to be deployed in World War I.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-30
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1945-10-04
Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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Night Unto Night
1949-06-10
Night Unto Night
Overview: A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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The Merry Monahans
1944-09-15
The Merry Monahans
Overview: The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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The Big Hangover
1950-05-26
The Big Hangover
Overview: A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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The Life of Riley
1949-04-16
The Life of Riley
Overview: Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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So This Is Love
1953-07-15
So This Is Love
Overview: Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-15
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The Wayward Pups
1937-07-10
The Wayward Pups
Overview: The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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Man on a Bus
1955-05-01
Man on a Bus
Overview: Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Jungle Book
1942-04-03
Jungle Book
Overview: Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-03
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Practically Yours
1944-12-20
Practically Yours
Overview: In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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City Without Men
1943-01-14
City Without Men
Overview: A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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Night Into Morning
1951-06-08
Night Into Morning
Overview: Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942-12-30
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Overview: A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-30
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Smith of Minnesota
1942-10-15
Smith of Minnesota
Overview: This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interview with the famed halfback. In order to garner information, the scenarist is assigned to live with Smith. During the film, Smith shares his thoughts on football and anecdotes from his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-15
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Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Too Young to Know
1945-12-01
Too Young to Know
Overview: A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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The Time Machine
1978-11-05
The Time Machine
Overview: A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-05
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
1960-01-01
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Overview: Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's or Dick's.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Bowery to Broadway
1944-11-03
Bowery to Broadway
Overview: Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-03
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946-07-26
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Overview: Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-26
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941-02-21
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Overview: Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Blood on the Sun
1945-04-26
Blood on the Sun
Overview: Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-26
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Overview: This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-16
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The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980-05-20
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
Overview: Deep in the Enchanted Forest a wondrous lady weaves tales of fantasy-the famed Fairy Godmother, Rosemary De Camp plays the Godmother, a delightfully eccentric woman who breathes new life into the memories of fairy tale characters. Animals love her and she keeps many pets. There is Roscoe, the cocky little mouse; Bellamy, the sophisticated, gallant lion; and Benita, the Southern belle, a Scarlett O'Hara in the form of a cow. The maleficent master of mayhem, God-fredy T. Hrartless, completes the Godmother's household. The show renders a fairy tale story about such famed characters as Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and many others, Both live action and brilliant animation sequences, combined with cartoon segments, pick up where traditional stories leave off, developing themes in a delightful and entertaining format. "Memoirs Of A Fairy Godmother" is a program that children will enjoy and cherish for years to come.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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