Rose Hobart (born Rose Kefer) was an American actress and Screen Actors Guild official. When Hobart was 15, she debuted professionally in Cappy Ricks, a Chautauqua production. She was accepted for the 18-week tour because she told officials that she was 18. At that same age, she was cast in Ferenc Molnárs Liliom, which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobarts Broadway stage debut was on September 17, 1923 at the Knickerbocker Theater, playing a young girl in Lullaby. In 1925, she played Charmian in Caesar and Cleopatra.Hobart was an original member of Eva Le Galliennes Civic Repertory Theatre. In 1928, she made her London debut, playing Nona Rolf in The Comic Artist. During her career in theater, she toured with Noël Coward in The Vortex and was cast opposite Helen Hayes in What Every Woman Knows.Her performance as Grazia in Death Takes a Holiday won her a Hollywood contract. Hobart appeared in more than 40 motion pictures over a 20-year period. Her first film role was the part of Julie in the first talking picture version of Liliom, made by Fox Film Corporation in 1930, starring Charles Farrell in the title role, and directed by Frank Borzage. Under contract to Universal, Hobart starred in A Lady Surrenders, East of Borneo, and Scandal for Sale. On loan to other studios, she appeared in Chances and Compromised. In 1931, she co-starred with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Rouben Mamoulians original film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She played the role of Muriel, Jekylls fiancée. In 1936, Surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, who bought a print of East of Borneo to screen at home, became smitten with the actress, and cut out nearly all the parts that did not include her. He also showed the film at silent film speed and projected it through a blue-tinted lens. He named the resulting work Rose Hobart. Hobart often played the other woman in movies during the 1940s, with her last major film role in Bride of Vengeance.The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Hobart in 1949, effectively ending her career. She believed that she first came to the attention of anti-Communist activists because of her commitment to improving working conditions for actors in Hollywood.
Muriel Carew
Film 1931
Virginia Thatcher
Film 1947
Lilyan Gregg
Film 1944
Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
Film 1941
Carol Brent
Film 1942
Dorothy Kent
Film 1945
Mrs. Marion West
Film 1941
Julie
Film 1930
Linda Rudolph
Film 1931
Claire Strong
Film 1932
Peggy Nolan
Film 1940
Molly Prescott
Film 1931
Mrs. Powell
Film 1944
Lydia Matthews
Film 1948
Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
Film 1935
Self
Film 1997
Edith Dexter
Film 1946
Isabel Beauvel
Film 1930
Dale Layden
Film 1941
Ramona Lisa
Film 1940
Irene
Film 1940
Ruth Hackett
Film 1933
Self
Film 1997
Ann Brock
Film 1931
Mrs. Carter Wardley
Film 1941
Claire Barrington
Film 1942
Mrs. Carson
Film 1943
Agnes Meeler
Film 1947
Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
Film 1943
Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1936
Self - Interviewee
Film 1998
Alice North
Film 1941
Alma Pearce
Film 1942
Rosemary Walsh
Film 1942
Connie Palmer
Film 1946
Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Film 1945
Mrs. Black
Film 1942
Herself
Film 2007
Lead Woman (Uncredited)
Film 1943
Melanie Karcher
Tv 1955
Tv 1971
Mrs. Hugo (segment "The Dear Departed")
Tv 1970
Housekeeper - Irma
Tv 1967