Phyllis Brooks

Phyllis Brooks

Рождение : 1915-07-18, Boise, Idaho, USA

Смерть : 1995-08-01

История

Phyllis Brooks was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho on July 18, 1915. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl" due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), and the Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes. Along with fellow actress Una Merkel, and accompanied by noted actor Gary Cooper, Phyllis was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific Theater of War during World War II, on a USO tour. She was married to Torbert Macdonald, an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman who was John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard, and who remained a close friend and confidante throughout his life. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so he could complete his Harvard Law degree. Congressman Macdonald had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976. Phyllis continued performing in summer stock theater after her marriage, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedy's godson. She died on August 1, 1995 in Cape Neddick, Maine at the age of 80.

Профиль

Phyllis Brooks

Фильмы

The Unseen
Maxine
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
High Powered
Marian Blair
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Dangerous Passage
Nita
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
Леди в темноте
Allison DuBois
Лайза Эллиотт - успешный главный редактор модного журнала, выпускаемого Кендаллом Несбиттом. Эллиотт состоит в серьезных отношениях с Несбиттом. Они хотят пожениться, они не могут, поскольку проживающая отдельно жена Кендалла отказывается дать развод. У Лайзы недавно начались головные боли и странные дурные сны. Вдобавок ко всему ей приходится иметь дело с менеджером по маркетингу Чарли Джонсоном, который сильно ее раздражает и гордится этим. Лайза соглашается пройти сеансы психоанализа у доктора Алекса Брукса...
Hi'ya, Sailor
Nanette
Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.
Silver Spurs
Mary Johnson
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
No Place for a Lady
Dolly Adair
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Жестокий Шанхай
Dixie Pomeroy
В самом крупном казино Шанхая, принадлежащем экстравагантной Маме Джин Слинг, появляется красавица Виктория Чартерис, также известная как Поппи Смит. В это же время Сэр Гай Чартерис, богатый предприниматель, скупивший большую часть кварталов Шанхая, вынуждает Маму Джин закрыть к наступающему китайскому Новому Году свое игорное заведение. Теперь он хозяин земли. Мама Джин просто так не желает бросить все, что нажито непосильным трудом. Выяснив, что Поппи дочь Чартериса, Мамаша дает задание декаденту-поэту доктору Омару ухаживать за девушкой, вкрадчиво и намеренно склоняя ее к азартной игре и алкоголю.
The Flying Squad
Ann Perryman
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Slightly Honorable
Sarilla Cushing
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Lucky to Me
Pamela Stuart
Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.
Чарли Чен в Рино
Vivian Wells
Мэри Уитмен уехала в Рино, чтобы добиться развода. Находясь там, её арестовывают по подозрению в убийстве постояльца в отеле (который специализируется на разводах). В отеле много других людей, которые хотели убрать жертву с дороги. Чарли приезжает из своего дома в Гонолулу, чтобы раскрыть убийство.
Чарли Чен в Гонолулу
Judy Hayes
Пока Чарли занят рождением своего первого внука, сын Джимми выдает себя за отца, чтобы расследовать убийство на борту грузового судна в гавани.
Up the River
Helen Lindsay
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Straight, Place and Show
Barbara 'Babs' Drake
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Little Miss Broadway
Barbara Shea
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
В старом Чикаго
Ann Colby
По рассказу Нивена Буша. В центре фильма история трех сыновей вдовы Молли О'Лири - Боба, Дайона и Джека. Братья попадают в детстве в Чикаго и достигают там значительного успеха, но в конечном счете оказываются конкурентами друг другу.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Lola Lee
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Walking Down Broadway
Vicki Stone
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
City Girl
Ellen Ward
In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
Али-Баба едет в город
Herself
Голливудский киноактер Эл Бэбсон, снимающийся в фильме по мотивам арабских сказок, принимает болеутоляющее и просыпается в какой-то средневековой арабской стране. Там его принимают за сына Али-Бабы. Султан тут же назначает Эла своим главным министром, и путешественник во времени приступает к кардинальным преобразованиям. Разумеется, он наживает себе немало врагов среди лиц, приближенных к султану. Чтобы избежать неминуемой гибели, Элу пришлось воспользоваться ковром-самолетом...
Dangerously Yours
Valerie Barton
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
You Can't Have Everything
Evelyn Moore
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Two in the Dark
Undetermined Role
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Foolish Hearts
Gloria Seabury / Jeanette Hardwick
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
Another Face
Sheila Barry
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
To Beat the Band
Rowena
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
I've Been Around
Gay Blackstone
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.