Rosemary Decamp

Actor

About

Birth Place

Prescott, Arizona, USA

Born

November 14, 1910

Died

February 20, 2001

Biography

Filmography

Saturday the 14th (1981)

The Time Machine (1978)

13 Ghosts (1960)

Hilda Zorba

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

Lucy Hamilton

Strategic Air Command (1955)

Mrs. Thorne

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Alice Winfield

Photos & Videos

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Nora Prentiss (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Have To Dance

Scandal Sheet (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Thinking People Like It Too

Family & Companions

John A Shider

Husband

Died in 1977.

Biography

Actress Rosemary deCamp studied at Mills College in Oakland, California, and worked on Broadway as an understudy before getting into radio -- voicing roles on "Dr. Christian" and "The Career of Alice Blair." She debuted on the big screen in 1941 with the film "Cheers for Miss Bishop" and over the next eight years made 25 movies for a variety of studios. She was often cast as the confidant or close friend of the female lead in features like "Hold Back the Dawn," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Rhapsody in Blue," and "Night Unto Night." She played Peg Riley in the movie and TV versions of "The Life of Riley" opposite both William Bendix and Jackie Gleason. DeCamp was also a regular on "The Bob Cummings Show" throughout the '50s, worked with Marlo Thomas on "That Girl," and played Aunt Helen on "Petticoat Junction" in the '60s. Although her work in films had mostly subsided in the last two decades of her career, she continued to work steadily on television, with recurring roles on "The Partridge Family," "Lobo," "B.J. and the Bear," and "St. Elsewhere." Her last TV appearance was in the "Murder, She Wrote" episode "Dead Letter" in 1989. She died of pneumonia in 2001 at the age of 90.

Filmography

Life Events

1941

Feature acting debut "Cheers for Miss Bishop"

1942

Portrayed the mother of George M Cohan (played by James Cagney) in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

1942

Cast as the mother of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, in "The Jungle Book"

1943

Acted opposite Ronald Reagan in "This Is the Army"

1945

Again played the mother of a famous person, this time George Gershwin (portrayed by Robert Alda) in "Rhapsody in Blue"

1948

Co-starred opposite William Bendix in the film version of "The Life of Riley"

1949

Reprised screen role in the TV version of "The Life of Riley", opposite both Bendix and Jackie Gleason

1955

Last film for five years, "Strategic Air Command"

1960

Made one-shot return to films in "13 Ghosts"

1979

Was briefly seen as the mother of Maureen Dean in the CBS miniseries "Blind Ambition"

1981

Final film, the satirical "Friday the 14th", a spoof of horror movies

1989

Last TV acting role, a guest appearance on "Murder, She Wrote", starring Angela Lansbury

Photo Collections

Nora Prentiss - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Warner Bros' Nora Prentiss (1947), starring Ann Sheridan. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.