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.
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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Rose Hobart 2
Character:Herself
Release Date:09/05/2007
Universal Horror
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:08/10/1998
Bogart: The Untold Story
Character:Self
Release Date:05/01/1997
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Character:Self
Release Date:05/01/1997
Bride of Vengeance
Character:Lady Eleanora
Release Date:07/04/1949
Mickey
Character:Lydia Matthews
Release Date:23/06/1948
Cass Timberlane
Character:Diantha Marl
Release Date:06/11/1947
The Trouble with Women
Character:Agnes Meeler
Release Date:25/06/1947
The Farmer's Daughter
Character:Virginia Thatcher
Release Date:26/03/1947
Canyon Passage
Character:Marta Lestrade
Release Date:17/07/1946
The Cat Creeps
Character:Connie Palmer
Release Date:17/05/1946
Claudia and David
Character:Edith Dexter
Release Date:25/02/1946
Isle of the Dead
Character:Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Release Date:07/09/1945
Conflict
Character:Kathryn Mason
Release Date:15/06/1945
The Brighton Strangler
Character:Dorothy Kent
Release Date:10/05/1945
The Soul of a Monster
Character:Lilyan Gregg
Release Date:17/08/1944
Song of the Open Road
Character:Mrs. Powell
Release Date:21/06/1944
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Character:Mrs. Diana Burns
Release Date:09/12/1943
The Mad Ghoul
Character:Della Elliott, reporter
Release Date:12/11/1943
Swing Shift Maisie
Character:Lead Woman (Uncredited)
Release Date:01/10/1943
Salute to the Marines
Character:Mrs. Carson
Release Date:02/09/1943
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character:Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
Release Date:05/01/1943
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Character:Mrs. Black
Release Date:01/11/1942
Gallant Lady
Character:Rosemary Walsh
Release Date:29/05/1942
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Character:Alma Pearce
Release Date:17/04/1942
Mr. and Mrs. North
Character:Carol Brent
Release Date:23/01/1942
A Gentleman at Heart
Character:Claire Barrington
Release Date:16/01/1942
No Hands on the Clock
Character:Mrs. Marion West
Release Date:01/12/1941
Nothing But the Truth
Character:Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
Release Date:10/10/1941
Lady Be Good
Character:Mrs. Carter Wardley
Release Date:18/09/1941
I'll Sell My Life
Character:Dale Layden
Release Date:12/09/1941
Singapore Woman
Character:Alice North
Release Date:17/05/1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Character:Mrs. Merton
Release Date:25/04/1941
A Night at Earl Carroll's
Character:Ramona Lisa
Release Date:06/12/1940
Susan and God
Character:Irene
Release Date:07/06/1940
Wolf of New York
Character:Peggy Nolan
Release Date:23/01/1940
Tower of London
Character:Anne Neville
Release Date:17/11/1939
Rose Hobart
Character:Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/12/1936
Convention Girl
Character:Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
Release Date:30/10/1935
The Shadow Laughs
Character:Ruth Hackett
Release Date:26/03/1933
Scandal for Sale
Character:Claire Strong
Release Date:01/04/1932
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character:Muriel Carew
Release Date:24/12/1931
Compromised
Character:Ann Brock
Release Date:19/11/1931
East of Borneo
Character:Linda Rudolph
Release Date:01/08/1931
Chances
Character:Molly Prescott
Release Date:18/07/1931
A Lady Surrenders
Character:Isabel Beauvel
Release Date:06/10/1930
Liliom
Character:Julie
Release Date:27/09/1930
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