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From Wikipedia
Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. She was briefly married to the cartoonist and showman Robert L. Ripley and a mistress of Louis B. Mayer.
She married Robert Ripley at age 14 on October 31, 1919, about the time he invented his Believe It or Not cartoon strip. The marriage was short lived—they separated three months later and were divorced in 1926. Ripley never spoke about the marriage, calling himself a "confirmed bachelor".
After her marriage, Roberts entered several beauty pageants including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown" award each time.
She went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including Tall Timber (1937) and Love Takes Flight (also 1937), in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, a 1938 serial.
She was a mistress to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer in 1935 and 1936, while under contract to his company. In the 1940s, Roberts married John Wesley Smith.
Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final appearances were in Criss-Cross and Family Honeymoon. Her acting career never becoming the success she had dreamed of, she left Hollywood in 1949. She died in Plymouth, Massachusetts from pneumonia, aged 65.
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Filmography (Movies)
Criss Cross
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:04/02/1949
You Gotta Stay Happy
Character:Maid (Uncredited)
Release Date:28/10/1948
For the Love of Mary
Character:Dorothy
Release Date:01/09/1948
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Character:Mother
Release Date:11/08/1948
The Egg and I
Character:Nurse (Uncredited)
Release Date:01/05/1947
The Brute Man
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:01/10/1946
The Killers
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:30/08/1946
White Tie and Tails
Character:Marie (uncredited)
Release Date:30/08/1946
Scarlet Street
Character:Secretary (uncredited)
Release Date:25/12/1945
Strange Confession
Character:
Release Date:05/10/1945
Hi, Beautiful
Character:Hostess (uncredited)
Release Date:18/12/1944
Dead Man's Eyes
Character:
Release Date:10/11/1944
Reckless Age
Character:WAVE
Release Date:01/08/1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:09/06/1944
Jungle Woman
Character:Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Release Date:01/06/1944
Phantom Lady
Character:Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Release Date:28/01/1944
Top Man
Character:War Plant Worker
Release Date:17/09/1943
Fired Wife
Character:Divorcee
Release Date:04/09/1943
Phantom of the Opera
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:12/08/1943
It Comes Up Love
Character:Bernice
Release Date:09/04/1943
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Character:Barmaid (uncredited)
Release Date:12/03/1943
Bombay Clipper
Character:Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Release Date:11/01/1942
Mob Town
Character:Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Release Date:03/10/1941
Pioneers of the West
Character:Anna Bailey
Release Date:12/03/1940
Mars Attacks the World
Character:Azura, Queen of Mars
Release Date:07/11/1938
The Devil's Party
Character:Helen McCoy
Release Date:02/06/1938
That Mothers Might Live
Character:Passerby (uncredited)
Release Date:30/04/1938
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Character:Queen Azura
Release Date:21/03/1938
Love Takes Flight
Character:Joan Lawson
Release Date:05/11/1937
Outlaws of the Orient
Character:Alice
Release Date:20/08/1937
Bill Cracks Down
Character:Susan Bailey
Release Date:22/03/1937
Park Avenue Logger
Character:Peggy O'Shea
Release Date:16/03/1937
Sinner Take All
Character:Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Release Date:18/12/1936
Wife vs. Secretary
Character:Party Guest (uncredited)
Release Date:28/02/1936
China Seas
Character:Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Release Date:09/08/1935
Naughty Marietta
Character:Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Release Date:29/03/1935
West Point of the Air
Character:Woman in Party at Night Club
Release Date:23/03/1935
Once to Every Woman
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:24/03/1934
My Woman
Character:Party Guest (Uncredited)
Release Date:04/10/1933
Pilgrimage
Character:
Release Date:12/07/1933
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