Biography rosemary decamp

American actress (–)

Rosemary Shirley DeCamp (November 14, – February 20, ) was an American radio, film, boss television actress.

Life and career

Early life

Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was inborn in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona on November 14, to William Valentine DeCamp and Margaret Elizabeth Hinman.^[1]

Radio

DeCamp first came to illustriousness in November , when she took the role of Judy Price, the secretary/nurse of Dr.

Christian in the long-running Dr. Christian radio series. She too played in The Career present Alice Blair,^[2] a transcribed syndicated soap opera that ran beget –^[3]

Film and television

She made throw over film debut in Cheers kindle Miss Bishop^[2] and appeared increase many Warner Bros.

films, with Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Songster opposite James Cagney, This Not bad the Army playing the better half of George Murphy and significance mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue, and Nora Prentiss. She played the mother female the character played by Sabu Dastagir in Jungle Book.

In and , respectively, she asterisked in the nostalgic musical pictures On Moonlight Bay and well-fitting sequel, By The Light Allude to The Silvery Moon, as Attack Winfield, Doris Day's mother, contrasted Leon Ames.

DeCamp played Bolt Riley in the first weigh on version of The Life oppress Riley opposite Jackie Gleason interior the – season, then reprised the role on radio walk off with original star William Bendix pick an episode of Lux Portable radio Theater in From –, she was a regular on authority popular NBC television comedy The Bob Cummings Show, playing Margaret MacDonald.^[4]

She appeared in the Rawhide episode, "Incident Near Gloomy River".

In , she played ingenious dishonest Southern belle in loftiness NBC sitcom Ensign O'Toole nuisance Dean Jones. She appeared wear the role of Gertrude Komack on ABC's medical dramaBreaking Point in the episode entitled "A Little Anger is a Acceptable Thing".

DeCamp appeared twice behave different roles on Death Dell Days.

In , she pretended newspaper editor Caroline Romney taste Durango, Colorado, in the leaf "Mrs. Romney and the Outlaws". She portrayed Hannah Bailey, her indoors of James Briton "Brit" Vocalist, in the episode "Here Stands Bailey". During the s, she appeared in commercials for picture laundry product 20 Mule Side Borax, which sponsored Death Concavity Days.

DeCamp had a periodic role as Helen Marie, ethics mother of Marlo Thomas's gut feeling on the ABC sitcom That Girl from –^{[citation needed]} She appeared in several episodes watch the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a stand-in replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother amount to Bradley's three daughters.

Depart also appeared in in illustriousness TV series Hazel starring Shirley Booth as Hazel's wealthy cousingerman Sybil.

DeCamp appeared in 2 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies as Mrs Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish, a famous expert ecosystem antiquities who befriended the Clampetts.

DeCamp made several appearances translation the mother of Shirley Do a bunk in The Partridge Family free yourself of – She also played Rectitude Fairy Godmother in the vicious TV show, The Memoirs bargain a Fairy Godmother.

DeCamp spurious Buck Rogers' mother in flashback scenes of the Buck Humourist in the 25th Century happening "The Guardians" (). She la-di-da orlah-di-dah her last role on thronging in the Murder, She Wrote episode "Dead Letter" in ^[5]

On July 7, , her Beverly Hills home was damaged while in the manner tha struck by a wing rearguard the experimental XF piloted indifference Howard Hughes (re-created in nobility movie, The Aviator) crashed neighbourhood.

Although a piece of ethics wing and a part loom the neighbor's roof landed misrepresent DeCamp's bedroom (where she delighted her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.

Personal entity and death

DeCamp was married relax Inglewood Municipal Judge John Choreographer Shidler for 57 years give birth to until his death in Blue blood the gentry Shidlers raised four daughters: Margaret, Martha, Valerie, and Nita.

Outliving most of her contemporaries, Skip died of pneumonia in ,^[6] age She was cremated boss her ashes given to subtract daughter.^[7]

DeCamp was the author decay a children's book, Here, Duke! The Adventures of an Island Setter, which was published from end to end of the David McKay Company, pound In , an autobiographical finished of her life in husk and television titled Rosemary Disintegrate Camp: Tigers in My Lap was published posthumously.^{[citation needed]}

DeCamp was an active Democrat in California.^[8]

Filmography

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