Rosemary DeCamp(1910-2001)

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13 Ghosts (1960)

RoseMary De Camp was the quintessential small-town American mother, a calming and steadying presence in scores of films in the 1940s and 1950s. She came to Hollywood after a successful career on the stage and in radio, making her film debut in 1941. Though she worked for many studios, she was most closely associated with Warner Bros., for whom she made many pictures, often playing a young mother or the friend or sister of the heroine. Her best-known role was probably as the mother of George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney) in the classic Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). She also did a lot of work on television; she was a regular on The Bob Cummings Show (1961) and played Marlo Thomas' mother on That Girl (1966).

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Rosemary DeCamp and Barbara Logan in The Life of Riley (1948)

Lon Chaney Jr. and Rosemary DeCamp in The Life of Riley (1948)

Lon Chaney Jr., Rosemary DeCamp, and Barbara Logan in The Life of Riley (1948)

James Cagney, Rosemary DeCamp, Walter Huston, and Joan Leslie in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Leon Ames, Philip Ahn, and Rosemary DeCamp in The Big Hangover (1950)

Elizabeth Taylor, Leon Ames, Van Johnson, and Rosemary DeCamp in The Big Hangover (1950)

Rosemary DeCamp in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

Bea Benaderet and Rosemary DeCamp in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

Rosemary DeCamp and Irene Ryan in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

Rosemary DeCamp and Harriet E. MacGibbon in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

James Cagney, Jeanne Cagney, Rosemary DeCamp, Walter Huston, and Joan Leslie in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

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The Bob Cummings Show

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TV Series

Margaret MacDonald
Margaret
Margaret Collins

This Is the Army

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Ethel Jones

1943

On Moonlight Bay

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Alice Winfield(as Rosemary De Camp)

1951

13 Ghosts

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Hilda Zorba(as Rosemary De Camp)

1960

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Actress

Murder, She Wrote
- Agnes
- TV Series
- 1989
St. Elsewhere
- Amy Jeffries
- TV Series
- 1986–1987
Hotel
- Mary Tyson (as Rosemary De Camp)
- TV Series
- 1985
Quincy M.E.
- Eugenia Winston
- TV Series
- 1983
Fantasy Island
- Carol Cook
- TV Series
- 1983
Simon & Simon
- Mrs. Martin (as Rosemary De Camp)
- TV Series
- 1982
Saturday the 14th
- Aunt Lucille (as Rosemary De Camp)
- 1981
B.J. And the Bear
- Hatsie Tipton
- TV Series
- 1981
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Buck's Mother (as Rosemary De Camp)
- TV Series
- 1981
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
- Mama Lobo
- TV Series
- 1980
Days of Our Lives
- Mother Superior
- TV Series
- 1979–1980
Family
- Amelia Stone
- TV Series
- 1979
Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit Up the World
- TV Movie
- 1979
The Time Machine
- Agnes
- TV Movie
- 1978
The Love Boat
- Cynthia Loudon
- TV Series
- 1978

Soundtrack

Warner at War
- performer: "You're a Grand Old Flag" (uncredited)
- TV Movie
- 2008
Petticoat Junction
- performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon"
- performer: "So Long Mae Belle" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 1968
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
- performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (uncredited)
- 1953
Look for the Silver Lining
- performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Back, Back, Back to Baltimore" (uncredited)
- 1949
The Merry Monahans
- performer: "In My Merry Oldsmobile" (uncredited)
- 1944
Yankee Doodle Dandy
- performer: "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" (1897), "I Was Born in Virginia" (1906) (uncredited)
- 1942

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Alternative names
- Rosemary De Camp
Height
- 5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
Born
- November 14, 1910
- Prescott, Arizona, USA
Died
- February 20, 2001
- Torrance, California, USA(complications from pneumonia)
Spouse
- John Ashton ShidlerJune 28, 1941 - August 31, 1997 (his death, 4 children)
Parents
Other works
(4/26/64) Stage: Appeared (reading passages as "Margaret" / "The Queen" from "Henry VI") in a 400th-anniversary celebration of the birth of William Shakespeare at Loyola University, Los Angeles, CA.
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Trivia
On July 7, 1946, she and her husband were in their house in Beverly Hills, California, when an aircraft crashed into the roof of the house next door, and its wing cut through the roof of her house and landed in the bedroom, where she and her husband were. The plane, an experimental model called the XF-11, had experienced mechanical problems after taking off from the airport at nearby Culver City. It was piloted by Howard Hughes, and finally came to rest after crashing through the wall of the house of another of DeCamp's neighbors and exploding. Hughes was rescued from the cockpit by a bystander and, although receiving several broken bones, burns and gashes, was not severely injured and eventually made a full recovery. He paid for the damage to the houses in the neighborhood out of his own pocket.