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person_profile-Phyllis Brooks

Phyllis Brooks Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Phyllis Brooks

Date of Birth:

Jul 18, 1915

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 01, 1995

Biography of

Phyllis Brooks

    Phyllis Brooks was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho on July 18, 1915. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl" due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), and the Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes.

    Along with fellow actress Una Merkel, and accompanied by noted actor Gary Cooper, Phyllis was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific Theater of War during World War II, on a USO tour. She was married to Torbert Macdonald, an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman who was John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard, and who remained a close friend and confidante throughout his life. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so he could complete his Harvard Law degree. Congressman Macdonald had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976.

    Phyllis continued performing in summer stock theater after her marriage, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedy's godson. She died on August 1, 1995 in Cape Neddick, Maine at the age of 80.

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Phyllis Brooks

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Filmography of

Phyllis Brooks

Found 28 Movies in total

The Unseen

Maxine ( Actor )

... 1945

High Powered

Marian Blair ( Actor )

... 1945

Dangerous Passage

Nita ( Actor )

... 1944

Lady in the Dark

Allison DuBois ( Actor )

... 1944

Hi'ya, Sailor

Nanette ( Actor )

... 1943

Silver Spurs

Mary Johnson ( Actor )

... 1943

No Place for a Lady

Dolly Adair ( Actor )

... 1943

The Shanghai Gesture

Dixie Pomeroy ( Actor )

... 1941

The Flying Squad

Ann Perryman ( Actor )

... 1940

Slightly Honorable

Sarilla Cushing ( Actor )

... 1939

Charlie Chan in Reno

Vivian Wells ( Actor )

... 1939

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Judy Hayes ( Actor )

... 1938

Up the River

Helen Lindsay ( Actor )

... 1938

Straight, Place and Show

Barbara 'Babs' Drake ( Actor )

... 1938

Little Miss Broadway

Barbara Shea ( Actor )

... 1938

In Old Chicago

Ann Colby ( Actor )

... 1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Lola Lee ( Actor )

... 1938

Walking Down Broadway

Vicki Stone ( Actor )

... 1938

City Girl

Ellen Ward ( Actor )

... 1938

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Herself ( Actor )

... 1937

Dangerously Yours

Valerie Barton ( Actor )

... 1937

You Can't Have Everything

Evelyn Moore ( Actor )

... 1937

Two in the Dark

Undetermined Role ( Actor )

... 1936

Another Face

Sheila Barry ( Actor )

... 1935

To Beat the Band

Rowena ( Actor )

... 1935

McFadden´s Flats

Mary Ellis Hall ( Actor )

... 1935

I've Been Around

Gay Blackstone ( Actor )

... 1935

Strange Wives

The Actress ( Actor )

... 1934