Phyllis Brooks was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho on July 18, 1915. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the Ipana Toothpaste Girl due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), and the Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes.Along with fellow actress Una Merkel, and accompanied by noted actor Gary Cooper, Phyllis was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific Theater of War during World War II, on a USO tour. She was married to Torbert Macdonald, an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman who was John F. Kennedys roommate at Harvard, and who remained a close friend and confidante throughout his life. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so he could complete his Harvard Law degree. Congressman Macdonald had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976.Phyllis continued performing in summer stock theater after her marriage, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedys godson. She died on August 1, 1995 in Cape Neddick, Maine at the age of 80.

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Charlie Chan in Reno

Vivian Wells

Film 1939

The Shanghai Gesture

Dixie Pomeroy

Film 1941

The Unseen

Maxine

Film 1945

Dangerous Passage

Nita

Film 1944

City Girl

Ellen Ward

Film 1938

Foolish Hearts

Gloria Seabury / Jeanette Hardwick

Film 1935

Another Face

Sheila Barry

Film 1935

Silver Spurs

Mary Johnson

Film 1943

The Flying Squad

Ann Perryman

Film 1940

High Powered

Marian Blair

Film 1945

McFadden´s Flats

Mary Ellis Hall

Film 1935

Straight, Place and Show

Barbara 'Babs' Drake

Film 1938

No Place for a Lady

Dolly Adair

Film 1943

Hi'ya, Sailor

Nanette

Film 1943

Two in the Dark

Undetermined Role

Film 1936

Lucky to Me

Pamela Stuart

Film 1939

Walking Down Broadway

Vicki Stone

Film 1938

Up the River

Helen Lindsay

Film 1938

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Herself

Film 1937