Rosemary DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress. DeCamp first came to fame in November 1937, when she took the role of Judy Price, the secretary/nurse of Dr. Christian in the long-running radio series of the same name. She also played in The Career of Alice Blair, a transcribed syndicated soap opera that ran in 1939–1940. She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, This Is The Army playing the wife of George Murphy and the mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue, and Nora Prentiss. She played the mother of the character played by Sabu Dastagir in Jungle Book. In 1951 and 1953, respectively, she starred in the nostalgic musical films On Moonlight Bay and its sequel, By The Light Of The Silvery Moon, as Alice Winfield, Doris Day's mother, opposite Leon Ames. DeCamp played Peg Riley in the first television version of The Life of Riley opposite Jackie Gleason in the 1949–1950 season, then reprised the role on radio with original star William Bendix for an episode of Lux Radio Theater in 1950. From 1955–1959, she was a regular on the popular NBC television comedy The Bob Cummings Show, playing Margaret MacDonald, widowed sister of Cummings's character, the lothario photographer and former World War II pilot Bob Collins. Dwayne Hickman (future star of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) portrayed her son, Chuck. She appeared in the 1961 Rawhide episode, "Incident Near Gloomy River". In 1962, she played a dishonest Southern belle in the NBC sitcom Ensign O'Toole with Dean Jones. She appeared in the role of Gertrude Komack on ABC's medical drama Breaking Point in the episode entitled "A Little Anger is a Good Thing". DeCamp had a recurring role as Helen Marie, the mother of Marlo Thomas's character on the ABC sitcom That Girl from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's three daughters. DeCamp made several appearances as the mother of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family from 1970–1973. She also played The Fairy Godmother in the 1980s TV show, The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother. DeCamp played Buck Rogers' mother in flashback scenes of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Guardians". On July 7, 1946, her Beverly Hills home was damaged when struck by a wing after the experimental XF-11 piloted by Howard Hughes (re-created in the 2004 movie, The Aviator) crashed nearby. Although a piece of the wing and a part of the neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.

Filmography

• Murder, She Wrote — Agnes
• Hotel — Mary Tyson
• St. Elsewhere — Amy Jeffries
• 1981Saturday the 14th — Aunt Lucille
• Simon & Simon
• 1980The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
• B. J. and the Bear
• Blind Ambition — Maureen Dean's Mother
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Buck's Mother
• 1978The Time Machine — Agnes
• The Love Boat — Cynthia Loudon
• We've Got Each Other
• Quincy, M.E.
• Medical Story
• Petrocelli — Mrs. Drew
• The Rockford Files — Mary Ramsey
• Police Story — Beaulah
• Night Gallery — Ellen Chase
• The Partridge Family — Grandma Amanda Renfrew
• Love, American Style — Mrs. Kearn, Old Martha Pomerantz
• Mannix — Mrs. Henry
• That Girl
• The Baileys of Balboa
• Breaking Point
• Burke's Law — Mrs. Franklin
• Petticoat Junction — Emily Mapes, Aunt Helen
• Ensign O'Toole — Leona
• The Beverly Hillbillies — Priscilla Smith-Standish
• 87th Precinct — Mrs. Phelps
• Dr. Kildare — Angela Faring
• Hazel — Sybil
• 196013 Ghosts — Hilda Zorba
• 1960Tom, Dick and Harriet — Mother
• Rawhide — Margaret Fletcher, Mrs. Armstrong
• 77 Sunset Strip — Nurse (uncredited)
• 1955Man on a Bus — Miriam
• 1955Many Rivers to Cross — Lucy Hamilton
• 1955Strategic Air Command — Mrs. Thorne
• The Bob Cummings Show — Margaret MacDonald
• Climax! — Eleanor Farrington
• 1953By the Light of the Silvery Moon — Alice Winfield
• General Electric Theater — Maxine
• 1953Main Street to Broadway — Mrs. Harry Craig
• 1953So This Is Love — Aunt Laura Stokley
• 1952Scandal Sheet — Charlotte Grant
• The Ford Television Theatre — Mildred Ledbetter
• 1952The Treasure of Lost Canyon — Samuella
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Anna Baetz
• 1951Night Into Morning — Mrs. Annie Ainley
• 1951On Moonlight Bay — Alice Winfield
• The Red Skelton Show — Abigail Van Clive
• 1950The Big Hangover — Claire Bellcap
• 1949Look for the Silver Lining — Mom Miller
• 1949Night Unto Night — Thalia Shawn
• 1949The Life of Riley — Peg Riley
• The Life of Riley — Peg Riley
• 1949The Story of Seabiscuit — Mrs. Charles S. Howard
• Studio One — Cora Thompson, Laura Weber
• 1947Nora Prentiss — Lucy Talbot
• 1946From This Day Forward — Martha Beesley
• 1946Two Guys from Milwaukee — Nan
• 1945Blood on the Sun — Edith Miller
• 1945Danger Signal — Dr. Jane Silla
• 1945Pride of the Marines — Virginia Pfeiffer
• 1945Rhapsody in Blue — Rose Gershwin
• 1945Too Young to Know — Mrs. Enright
• 1945Week-End at the Waldorf — Anna
• 1944Bowery to Broadway — Bessie Kirby
• 1944Practically Yours — Ellen Macy
• 1944The Merry Monahans — Lillian DeRoyce
• 1943City Without Men — Mrs. Slade
• 1943This Is the Army — Ethel Jones
• 1942Commandos Strike at Dawn — Hilma Arnesen
• 1942Eyes in the Night — Vera Hoffman
• 1942Jungle Book — Messua
• 1942Smith of Minnesota — Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
• 1942Yankee Doodle Dandy — Nellie Cohan
• 1941Cheers for Miss Bishop — Minna Fields
• 1941Hold Back the Dawn — Berta Kurz
• 1937The Wayward Pups — Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• This Is Your Life — Self
• 1943The Voice That Thrilled the World — Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)