Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was the quintessential small-town American mother, a calming and steadying presence in scores of films in the 1940s and 1950s. She came to Hollywood after a successful career on the stage and in radio, making her film debut in 1941. Though she worked for many studios, she was most closely associated with Warner Bros., for whom she made many pictures, often playing a young mother or the friend or sister of the heroine. Her best-known role was probably as the mother ofGeorge M. Cohan (played byJames Cagney) in the classicYankee Doodle Dandy (1942). She also did alot of work on television; she was a regular onThe Bob Cummings Show (1961) and playedMarlo Thomas's mother onThat Girl (1966).
BornNovember 14, 1910
DiedFebruary 20, 2001(90)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Actress
Soundtrack
- Alternative names
- Rosemary De Camp
- Height
- 1.59 m
- Born
- Died
- February 20,2001
- Torrance, California, USA(complications from pneumonia)
- Spouse
- John Ashton ShidlerJune 28, 1941 - August 31, 1997 (his death, 4 children)
- ChildrenMargaret
- ParentsWilliam Valentine DeCamp
- Other works(4/26/64) Stage: Appeared (reading passages as "Margaret" / "The Queen" from "Henry VI") in a 400th-anniversary celebration of the birth ofWilliam Shakespeare at Loyola University, Los Angeles, CA.
- Publicity listings
- TriviaOn July 7, 1946, she and her husband were in their house in BeverlyHills, California, when an aircraft crashed into the roof of the housenext door, and its wing cut through the roof of her house and landed inthe bedroom, where she and her husband were. The plane, an experimentalmodel called the XF-11, had experienced mechanical problems aftertaking off from the airport at nearby Culver City. It was piloted byHoward Hughes, and finally came to rest after crashing through the wall ofthe house of another of DeCamp's neighbors and exploding. Hughes wasrescued from the cockpit by a bystander and, although receiving severalbroken bones, burns and gashes, was not severely injured and eventuallymade a full recovery. He paid for the damage to the houses in theneighborhood out of his own pocket.
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- When did Rosemary DeCamp die?February 20, 2001
- How did Rosemary DeCamp die?Complications from pneumonia
- How old was Rosemary DeCamp when she died?90 years old
- Where did Rosemary DeCamp die?Torrance, California, USA
- When was Rosemary DeCamp born?November 14, 1910
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