Rose Hobart
43 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 1, 1906
- Died
- Aug 29, 2000 (age 94)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Роуз Хобарт · Rose Kefer
Biography
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.
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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.
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Known for
Rose Hobart: movies and TV shows
Acting (48)
- 1971
- 1970
- 1967
- 1965
- 1955
- 1949 Bride of Vengeance
as Lady Eleanora
- 1948 Mickey
as Lydia Matthews
- 1947 Cass Timberlane
as Diantha Marl
- 1947 The Trouble with Women
as Agnes Meeler
- 1947 The Farmer's Daughter
as Virginia Thatcher
- 1946 Canyon Passage
as Marta Lestrade
- 1946 The Cat Creeps
as Connie Palmer
- 1946 Claudia and David
as Edith Dexter
- 1945 Isle of the Dead
as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
- 1945 Conflict
as Kathryn Mason
- 1945 The Brighton Strangler
as Dorothy Kent
- 1944 The Soul of a Monster
as Lilyan Gregg
- 1944 Song of the Open Road
as Mrs. Powell
- 1943 The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Mrs. Diana Burns
- 1943 The Mad Ghoul
as Della Elliott, reporter
- 1943 Swing Shift Maisie
as Lead Woman (Uncredited)
- 1943 Salute to the Marines
as Mrs. Carson
- 1943 The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
as Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
- 1942 Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
as Mrs. Black
- 1942 Gallant Lady
as Rosemary Walsh
- 1942 Who Is Hope Schuyler?
as Alma Pearce
- 1942 Mr. and Mrs. North
as Carol Brent
- 1942 A Gentleman at Heart
as Claire Barrington
- 1941 No Hands on the Clock
as Mrs. Marion West
- 1941 Nothing but the Truth
as Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
- 1941 Lady Be Good
as Mrs. Carter Wardley
- 1941 I'll Sell My Life
as Dale Layden
- 1941 Singapore Woman
as Alice North
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
as Mrs. Merton
- 1940 A Night at Earl Carroll's
as Ramona Lisa
- 1940 Susan and God
as Irene Burroughs
- 1940 Wolf of New York
as Peggy Nolan
- 1939 Tower of London
as Anne Neville
- 1936 Rose Hobart
as Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1935 Convention Girl
as Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
- 1933 The Shadow Laughs
as Ruth Hackett
- 1932 Scandal for Sale
as Claire Strong
- 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Muriel Carew
- 1931 Compromised
as Ann Brock
- 1931 East of Borneo
as Linda Rudolph
- 1931 Chances
as Molly Prescott
- 1930 A Lady Surrenders
as Isabel Beauvel
- 1930 Liliom
as Julie
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- Upcoming
- 1998
- 1997
- 1997