![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: November 14, 1914 in Prescott, AZ Death: February 20, 2001 in Torrance, CA Biography:From her earliest stage work onward, American actress "Rosemary DeCamp" played character roles that belied her youth and fresh-scrubbed attractiveness. On radio, DeCamp developed the vocal timbre that enabled her to portray a rich variety (and age-range) of characters. A peripheral performer on "One Man's Family" at 21, DeCamp showed up on several radio soap operas and anthologies before settling into the role of secretary Judy Price on the Dr. Christian series in 1937. DeCamp made her film bow in "Cheers for Miss Bishop" (1941), in which she and most of the cast were required to "age" several decades. With "The Jungle Book" (1941), the actress played the first of her many mother roles. The most famous examples of DeCamp's specialized film work are "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), in which she was the Irish-American mother of "George M. Cohan" ("James Cagney", who was 14 years her senior), and "Rhapsody... Full Biography
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