Rose Hobart

Rose Hobart

출생 : 1906-05-01, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 2000-08-29

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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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Universal Horror
Self - Interviewee
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Self
This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart.
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Bride of Vengeance
Lady Eleanora
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Mickey
Lydia Matthews
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
Cass Timberlane
Diantha Marl
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
The Trouble with Women
Agnes Meeler
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
농부의 딸
Virginia Thatcher
주인공 캐티(일명 카트린 홀스트롬)는 가족이 있는 미네소타의 농장을 떠나 대도시로 공부하러 간다. 그러나 도착한 첫날 사기를 당해 학비와 용돈을 잃어버리고 일자리를 찾을 수밖에 없는 처지가 된다. 캐티는 워싱턴의 국회의원 글렌 몰리의 집에서 가정부로 일하게 되는데, 솔직함과 현명함으로 몰리와 몰리의 어머니의 사랑을 받는다. 몰리를 후원하는 정치세력이 정직하지 않다는 것을 알아챈 캐티는 정치 활동에 적극적으로 관여하여 마침내 국회의원에 입후보한다. 몰리를 후원하는 세력의 보스는 선거 직전에 캐티의 평판을 나쁘게 퍼뜨려서 곤경에 빠뜨리려고 하지만 그녀를 사랑하는 몰리가 구해준다.
패시지 계곡
Marta Lestrade
1856년, 서부 개척지에서 운송업을 하는 로건은 친구 조지의 약혼녀 루시를 조지가 있는 오리건의 잭슨빌까지 데려다 주기로 하는데, 잭슨빌까지의 험난한 여정 속에서 로건과 루시는 서로에게 끌린다. 한편, 일확천금을 꿈꾸며 도박에 빠진 조지는 로건이 준 돈도 잃고, 광부들의 금에까지 손을 대고, 도박꾼의 아내에게 추파도 던진다. 로건 역시 경쟁자 브래그와 대치하는 가운데, 마을에서는 살인 사건이 일어난다. 존 포드의 〈역마차〉(1939)의 원작을 쓴 미국의 서부 소설 작가 어니스트 헤이콕스의 『협곡 통과』를 바탕으로 한 서부극. 서부 개척지를 배경으로, 꿈과 야망, 우정과 사랑을 비롯해 도박, 살인, 인디언과의 갈등 등을 다루고 있다. ((재)영화의전당)
The Cat Creeps
Connie Palmer
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Claudia and David
Edith Dexter
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
죽음의 섬
Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
발칸 전쟁이 한창이던 1912년. 니콜라스 페리데스 장군은 미국인 종군기자 올리버 데이비스와 함께 아내의 묘지가 있는 섬을 방문한다. 하지만 아내의 묘지는 오래 전에 약탈된 뒤였고 섬에 퍼진 전염병 때문에 그들은 전쟁터로 돌아갈 수도 없게 되었다. 전염병으로 섬 사람들이 한 명씩 죽어가는 동안 페리데스 장군은 서서히 광기에 휩싸인다. 그는 그리스인 간호사인 테아가 그리스 식 흡혈귀인 브리콜라카라고 의심하기 시작하는데...
Conflict
Kathryn Mason
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
The Brighton Strangler
Dorothy Kent
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
The Soul of a Monster
Lilyan Gregg
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Song of the Open Road
Mrs. Powell
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Mrs. Diana Burns
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
The Mad Ghoul
Della Elliott, reporter
Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancée, a beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but in reality loves Eric, her accompanist. In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.
Swing Shift Maisie
Lead Woman (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Salute to the Marines
Mrs. Carson
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Mrs. Black
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Gallant Lady
Rosemary Walsh
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Alma Pearce
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Mr. and Mrs. North
Carol Brent
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
A Gentleman at Heart
Claire Barrington
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
No Hands on the Clock
Mrs. Marion West
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Nothing But the Truth
Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
Lady Be Good
Mrs. Carter Wardley
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
I'll Sell My Life
Dale Layden
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
Singapore Woman
Alice North
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
지그펠드 걸
Mrs. Merton
1920년대, 유명한 쇼 제작자 지그펠드의 무대에 서는 것은 브로드웨이 드림을 안고 뉴욕으로 온 수많은 젊은이들의 꿈이다. 그 무대에 서는 세 명의 코러스 걸들의 운명을 따라간다.
A Night at Earl Carroll's
Ramona Lisa
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Susan and God
Irene
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Wolf of New York
Peggy Nolan
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Tower of London
Anne Neville
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Rose Hobart
Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Convention Girl
Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
A cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.
The Shadow Laughs
Ruth Hackett
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
Scandal for Sale
Claire Strong
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
지킬 박사와 하이드씨
Muriel Carew
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
East of Borneo
Linda Rudolph
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Chances
Molly Prescott
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
A Lady Surrenders
Isabel Beauvel
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
Liliom
Julie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Rose Hobart 2
Herself
An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece