
Rosemary DeCamp
Biography
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 Day's 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 Cummings's 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 O'Toole with Dean Jones. She appeared in the role of Gertrude Komack on ABC's 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 Thomas's character on the ABC sitcom That Girl from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's 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 neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.
Acting (42 movies)

Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942

Saturday the 14th
1981

Nora Prentiss
1947

Scandal Sheet
1952

On Moonlight Bay
1951

13 Ghosts
1960

Danger Signal
1945

Rhapsody in Blue
1945

This Is the Army
1943

The Story of Seabiscuit
1949

Strategic Air Command
1955

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953

Hold Back the Dawn
1941

Many Rivers to Cross
1955

Pride of the Marines
1945

The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952

Eyes in the Night
1942

Look for the Silver Lining
1949

Week-End at the Waldorf
1945

Night Unto Night
1949

From This Day Forward
1946

The Merry Monahans
1944

The Big Hangover
1950

The Life of Riley
1949

So This Is Love
1953

Man on a Bus
1955

Jungle Book
1942

Practically Yours
1944

City Without Men
1943

Night Into Morning
1951

Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942

Smith of Minnesota
1942

Main Street to Broadway
1953

Too Young to Know
1945

The Time Machine
1978

Tom, Dick and Harriet
1960

Bowery to Broadway
1944

Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946

Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941

Blood on the Sun
1945

The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943

The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980
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