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Rose Hobart

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.

Rose Hobart 2

2007

as Herself

Universal Horror

1998

as Self - Interviewee

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

as Self

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

1997

as Self

Cannon

1971

Night Gallery

1970

as Mrs. Hugo (segment "The Dear Departed")

The Invaders

1967

as Housekeeper - Irma

The F.B.I.

1965

as Maid

The F.B.I.

1965

as Molly Ferguson

Gunsmoke

1955

as Melanie Karcher

Bride of Vengeance

1949

as Lady Eleanora

Mickey

1948

as Lydia Matthews

Cass Timberlane

1947

as Diantha Marl

The Trouble with Women

1947

as Agnes Meeler

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

as Virginia Thatcher

Canyon Passage

1946

as Marta Lestrade

The Cat Creeps

1946

as Connie Palmer

Claudia and David

1946

as Edith Dexter

Isle of the Dead

1945

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

Conflict

1945

as Kathryn Mason

The Brighton Strangler

1945

as Dorothy Kent

The Soul of a Monster

1944

as Lilyan Gregg

Song of the Open Road

1944

as Mrs. Powell

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

1943

as Mrs. Diana Burns

The Mad Ghoul

1943

as Della Elliott, reporter

Swing Shift Maisie

1943

as Lead Woman (Uncredited)

Salute to the Marines

1943

as Mrs. Carson

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

1943

as Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

1942

as Mrs. Black

Gallant Lady

1942

as Rosemary Walsh

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

1942

as Alma Pearce

Mr. and Mrs. North

1942

as Carol Brent

A Gentleman at Heart

1942

as Claire Barrington

No Hands on the Clock

1941

as Mrs. Marion West

Nothing But the Truth

1941

as Mrs. Harriet Donnelly

Lady Be Good

1941

as Mrs. Carter Wardley

I'll Sell My Life

1941

as Dale Layden

Singapore Woman

1941

as Alice North

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

as Mrs. Merton

A Night at Earl Carroll's

1940

as Ramona Lisa

Susan and God

1940

as Irene

Wolf of New York

1940

as Peggy Nolan

Tower of London

1939

as Anne Neville

Rose Hobart

1936

as Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Convention Girl

1935

as Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal

The Shadow Laughs

1933

as Ruth Hackett

Scandal for Sale

1932

as Claire Strong

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931

as Muriel Carew

Compromised

1931

as Ann Brock

East of Borneo

1931

as Linda Rudolph

Chances

1931

as Molly Prescott

A Lady Surrenders

1930

as Isabel Beauvel

Liliom

1930

as Julie