From WikipediaAlice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. She was briefly married to the cartoonist and showman Robert L. Ripley and a mistress of Louis B. Mayer.She married Robert Ripley at age 14 on October 31, 1919, about the time he invented his Believe It or Not cartoon strip. The marriage was short lived—they separated three months later and were divorced in 1926. Ripley never spoke about the marriage, calling himself a confirmed bachelor.After her marriage, Roberts entered several beauty pageants including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown award each time.She went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including Tall Timber (1937) and Love Takes Flight (also 1937), in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in Flash Gordons Trip to Mars, a 1938 serial.She was a mistress to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer in 1935 and 1936, while under contract to his company. In the 1940s, Roberts married John Wesley Smith.Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final appearances were in Criss-Cross and Family Honeymoon. Her acting career never becoming the success she had dreamed of, she left Hollywood in 1949. She died in Plymouth, Massachusetts from pneumonia, aged 65.

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It Comes Up Love

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Top Man

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The Invisible Man's Revenge

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1944

Mob Town

Tenement Girl (uncredited)

Movie 1941

Phantom Lady

Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)

Movie 1944

For the Love of Mary

Dorothy

Movie 1948

The Devil's Party

Helen McCoy

Movie 1938

Bill Cracks Down

Susan Bailey

Movie 1937

Park Avenue Logger

Peggy O'Shea

Movie 1937

Love Takes Flight

Joan Lawson

Movie 1937

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

Queen Azura

Movie 1938

Outlaws of the Orient

Alice

Movie 1937

Pioneers of the West

Anna Bailey

Movie 1940

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mother

Movie 1948

Criss Cross

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1949

China Seas

Ship's Passenger (uncredited)

Movie 1935

West Point of the Air

Woman in Party at Night Club

Movie 1935

That Mothers Might Live

Passerby (uncredited)

Movie 1938

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Barmaid (uncredited)

Movie 1943

Bombay Clipper

Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)

Movie 1942

Scarlet Street

Secretary (uncredited)

Movie 1945

The Killers

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1946

Wife vs. Secretary

Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1936

My Woman

Party Guest (Uncredited)

Movie 1933

Pilgrimage

Movie 1933

Mars Attacks the World

Azura, Queen of Mars

Movie 1938

Sinner Take All

Hat Check Girl (uncredited)

Movie 1936

Phantom of the Opera

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1943

Fired Wife

Divorcee

Movie 1943

Reckless Age

WAVE

Movie 1944

White Tie and Tails

Marie (uncredited)

Movie 1946

You Gotta Stay Happy

Maid (Uncredited)

Movie 1948

Naughty Marietta

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Jungle Woman

Inquest Juror (uncredited)

Movie 1944

Strange Confession

Movie 1945

The Brute Man

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1946

The Egg and I

Nurse (Uncredited)

Movie 1947

Dead Man's Eyes

Movie 1944