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person_profile-Beatrice Roberts

Beatrice Roberts Died at age: 65

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Mar 07, 1905

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jul 24, 1970

Biography of

Beatrice Roberts

    From Wikipedia

    Alice 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 Gordon's 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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Filmography of

Beatrice Roberts

Found 37 Movies in total

Criss Cross

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

You Gotta Stay Happy

Maid (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

For the Love of Mary

Dorothy ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1948

The Egg and I

Nurse (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1947

The Brute Man

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

White Tie and Tails

Marie (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

The Killers

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Scarlet Street

Secretary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

... 1945

... 1944

Reckless Age

WAVE ( Actor )

... 1944

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Jungle Woman

Inquest Juror (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Phantom Lady

Monteiro's Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Top Man

War Plant Worker ( Actor )

... 1943

Fired Wife

Divorcee ( Actor )

... 1943

Phantom of the Opera

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

It Comes Up Love

Bernice ( Actor )

... 1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Barmaid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Bombay Clipper

Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Mob Town

Tenement Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

Pioneers of the West

Anna Bailey ( Actor )

... 1940

Mars Attacks the World

Azura, Queen of Mars ( Actor )

... 1938

The Devil's Party

Helen McCoy ( Actor )

... 1938

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

Queen Azura ( Actor )

... 1938

Love Takes Flight

Joan Lawson ( Actor )

... 1937

Outlaws of the Orient

Alice ( Actor )

... 1937

Bill Cracks Down

Susan Bailey ( Actor )

... 1937

Park Avenue Logger

Peggy O'Shea ( Actor )

... 1937

Sinner Take All

Hat Check Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Wife vs. Secretary

Party Guest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

China Seas

Ship's Passenger (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Naughty Marietta

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

West Point of the Air

Woman in Party at Night Club ( Actor )

... 1935

My Woman

Party Guest (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

... 1933