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person_profile-Rose Hobart

Rose Hobart Died at age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Rose Hobart

Date of Birth:

May 01, 1906

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 29, 2000

Biography of

Rose Hobart

    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 Molnár's Liliom, which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobart's 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 Gallienne's 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 Mamoulian's original film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She played the role of Muriel, Jekyll's 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.

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Rose Hobart

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Filmography of

Rose Hobart

Found 44 Movies in total

Universal Horror

Self - Interviewee ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

... 1997

Bride of Vengeance

Lady Eleanora ( Actor )

... 1949

Mickey

Lydia Matthews ( Actor )

... 1948

Cass Timberlane

Diantha Marl ( Actor )

... 1947

The Trouble with Women

Agnes Meeler ( Actor )

... 1947

The Farmer's Daughter

Virginia Thatcher ( Actor )

... 1947

Canyon Passage

Marta Lestrade ( Actor )

... 1946

The Cat Creeps

Connie Palmer ( Actor )

... 1946

Claudia and David

Edith Dexter ( Actor )

... 1946

Isle of the Dead

Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

Conflict

Kathryn Mason ( Actor )

... 1945

The Brighton Strangler

Dorothy Kent ( Actor )

... 1945

The Soul of a Monster

Lilyan Gregg ( Actor )

... 1944

Song of the Open Road

Mrs. Powell ( Actor )

... 1944

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

Mrs. Diana Burns ( Actor )

... 1943

The Mad Ghoul

Della Elliott, reporter ( Actor )

... 1943

Swing Shift Maisie

Lead Woman (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Salute to the Marines

Mrs. Carson ( Actor )

... 1943

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel ( Actor )

... 1943

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

Mrs. Black ( Actor )

... 1942

Gallant Lady

Rosemary Walsh ( Actor )

... 1942

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

Alma Pearce ( Actor )

... 1942

Mr. and Mrs. North

Carol Brent ( Actor )

... 1942

A Gentleman at Heart

Claire Barrington ( Actor )

... 1942

No Hands on the Clock

Mrs. Marion West ( Actor )

... 1941

Nothing But the Truth

Mrs. Harriet Donnelly ( Actor )

... 1941

Lady Be Good

Mrs. Carter Wardley ( Actor )

... 1941

I'll Sell My Life

Dale Layden ( Actor )

... 1941

Singapore Woman

Alice North ( Actor )

... 1941

Ziegfeld Girl

Mrs. Merton ( Actor )

... 1941

A Night at Earl Carroll's

Ramona Lisa ( Actor )

... 1940

Susan and God

Irene ( Actor )

... 1940

Tower of London

Anne Neville ( Actor )

... 1939

Convention Girl

Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal ( Actor )

... 1935

The Shadow Laughs

Ruth Hackett ( Actor )

... 1933

Scandal for Sale

Claire Strong ( Actor )

... 1932

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Muriel Carew ( Actor )

... 1931

Compromised

Ann Brock ( Actor )

... 1931

East of Borneo

Linda Rudolph ( Actor )

... 1931

Chances

Molly Prescott ( Actor )

... 1931

A Lady Surrenders

Isabel Beauvel ( Actor )

... 1930

Liliom

Julie ( Actor )

... 1930