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 Days 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 Cummingss 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 OToole with Dean Jones. She appeared in the role of Gertrude Komack on ABCs 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 Thomass character on the ABC sitcom That Girl from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradleys sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradleys 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 neighbors roof landed in DeCamps bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.
Aunt Lucille
Film 1981
Lucy Talbot
Film 1947
Charlotte Grant
Film 1952
Alice Winfield
Film 1951
Hilda Zorba
Film 1960
Dr. Jane Silla
Film 1945
Rose Gershwin
Film 1945
Ethel Jones
Film 1943
Mrs. Thorne
Film 1955
Alice Winfield
Film 1953
Berta Kurz
Film 1941
Lucy Hamilton
Film 1955
Virginia Pfeiffer
Film 1945
Samuella
Film 1952
Vera Hoffman
Film 1942
Mom Miller
Film 1949
Anna
Film 1945
Martha Beesley
Film 1946
Lillian DeRoyce
Film 1944
Claire Bellcap
Film 1950
Peg Riley
Film 1949
Aunt Laura Stokley
Film 1953
Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)
Film 1937
Miriam
Film 1955
Messua
Film 1942
Ellen Macy
Film 1944
Mrs. Slade
Film 1943
Mrs. Annie Ainley
Film 1951
Hilma Arnesen
Film 1942
Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
Film 1942
Mrs. Harry Craig
Film 1953
Mrs. Enright
Film 1945
Agnes
Film 1978
Bessie Kirby
Film 1944
Nan
Film 1946
Minna Fields
Film 1941
Edith Miller
Film 1945
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Film 1943
Amy Jeffries
Tv 1982
Mrs. Franklin
Tv 1963
Tv 1979
Cynthia Loudon
Tv 1977
Tv 1981
Tv 1966
Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
Tv 1962
Tv 1976
Buck's Mother
Tv 1979
Emily Mapes
Tv 1963
Tv 1967
Tv 1982
Cora Thompson
Tv 1948
Tv 1970
Maxine
Tv 1953
Anna Baetz
Tv 1951
Tv 1961
Margaret Fletcher
Tv 1959
Tv 1973
Peg Riley
Tv 1949
Self
Tv 1952
Eleanor Farrington
Tv 1954
Tv 1964
Tv 1977
Tv 1963
Angela Faring
Tv 1961
Tv 1952
Margaret MacDonald
Tv 1955
Abigail Van Clive
Tv 1951
Sybil
Tv 1961
Mrs. Armstrong
Tv 1959
Leona
Tv 1962
Aunt Helen
Tv 1963
Laura Weber
Tv 1948
Mary Ramsey
Tv 1974
Nurse (uncredited)
Tv 1958
Mildred Ledbetter
Tv 1952
Mrs. Kearn
Tv 1969
Mrs. Drew
Tv 1974
Old Martha Pomerantz
Tv 1969
Maureen Dean's Mother
Tv 1979
Agnes
Tv 1984
Mrs. Henry
Tv 1967