Rosemary DeCamp's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) That Girl Helen Marie The Baileys of Balboa Emily The Bob Cummings Show (1955) Margaret Ma…

Main Movie Roles 1981 - Saturday The 14th 1960 - 13 Ghosts 1953 - By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1952 - Scandal Sheet 1951 - On Moonlight Bay 1947 - Nora Prentiss 1945 - Rhapsody in Blue 1943 - This Is the Army 1942 - Yankee Doodle Dandy

BIOGRAPHY:

RoseMary De Camp 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 of George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney) in the classic Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). She also did a lot of work on television; she was a regular on "The Bob Cummings Show" (1961) and played Marlo Thomas' mother on "That Girl" (1965).


TRIVIA:

• On July 7, 1946, she and her husband were in their house in Beverly Hills, California, when an aircraft crashed into the roof of the house next door, and its wing cut through the roof of her house and landed in the bedroom, where she and her husband were. The plane, an experimental model called the XF-11, had experienced mechanical problems after taking off from the airport at nearby Culver City. It was piloted by 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), and finally came to rest after crashing through the wall of the house of another of DeCamp's neighbors and exploding. Hughes was rescued from the cockpit by a bystander and, although receiving several broken bones, burns and gashes, was not severely injured and eventually made a full recovery. He paid for the damage to the houses in the neighborhood out of his own pocket.
• Has four daughters: Margaret, Martha, Valerie and Nita