Rosemary de CampFilmography

Quincy, M.E.: Whatever Happened to Morris Perlmutter?

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) recognizes elderly murder victim Violet Winston (Louise Fitch) as a onetime vaudeville headliner, and the partner of long-retired comedian Morris Perlmutter (Keenan Wynn). The only witness to the killing is Violet's sister Eugenia (Rosemary DeCamp), who is handicapped by a Read More

Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother

Synopsis: This combination of live action and animation features the Fairy Godmother and her stories that appear in animation. Some titles include Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and others. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday the 14th

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Severn Darden, Jeffrey Tambor, Kari Michaelsen

Synopsis: In this early '80s send-up of venerable horror clichés, Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss star as John and Mary, an ordinary couple who inherit a mysterious house from a deceased uncle. Along with kids Debbie (Kari Michaelsen) and Billy (Kevin Brando), they move into the musty mansion, unaware Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Guardians

Synopsis: An episode of the television series, with Buck, Wilma, Hawk, and the crew plunged into strange surroundings because of a mysterious green box. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Memories of a Fairy Godmother

Blind Ambition

Actors: Martin Sheen, Theresa Russell, Michael Callan, Lonny Chapman, William Daniels

Synopsis: The 8-hour TV miniseries Blind Ambition was originally telecast May 20 through 23, 1979. This 105-minute feature-film version, prepared in 1982, seems a bit rushed at times, but overall does a credible and coherent job of storytelling. Based on John Dean's book Blind Ambition, with elements of Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Cosmic Wiz Kid

The Time Machine

Synopsis: A progressive scientist builds a machine that allows him time travel in this adaptation of the classic from H.G. Wells. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit up the World

The Rockford Files: Gearjammers, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) wants to find out why his dad Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) is being harrassed by hoodlums. It turns out that Rocky has inadvertently eavesdropped on a hijacking scheme involving his friend Johnny LoSalvo (Ted Gehring). The title of this Read More

The Partridge Family: Made in San Pueblo

Synopsis: Jackie Coogan takes over from Ray Bolger in the role of Shirley Partridge's father Mr. Renfrew (now named "Walter" rather than "Fred"), while Rosemary DeCamp recreates her portrayal of Shirley's mom Amanda. The plot gets under way when Grandma Amanda goes to work as the Partridge's maid, if only Read More

The Partridge Family: The Mod Father

Synopsis: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp return in the roles of Fred and Amanda Renfrew, the parents of Shirley Partridge (Shirley Jones). This time around, Grandpa Fred and Grandma Amanda have gleaned some rather strange ideas at an encounter group, and are going overboard in the efforts to embrace the Read More

The Partridge Family: The 40-Year Itch

Synopsis: The family faces yet another crisis when Shirley's dad Fred (Ray Bolger) shows up at her doorstep, announcing that he has separated from her mom Amanda (Rosemary DeCamp). Before long, Grandma Amanda also shows up, and it becomes crystal clear that the bone of contention is Grandpa Fred's strenuous Read More

The Partridge Family: Whatever Happened to the Old Songs?

Synopsis: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp make their first series appearances as Shirley Partridge's septuagenarian parents Fred and Amanda Renfrew. The Partridge kids are aghast when their mandolin-playing Grandpa decks himself out in the latest "mod" clothes and insists upon singing rock-and-roll tunes in Read More

Petticoat Junction: Ring-a-Ding-Ding

Synopsis: Bea Benaderet (Kate Bradley) does not appear in this episode, in which Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) and husband Steve (Mike Minor) solemnly promise each other never to remove their wedding rings. Alas, Betty breaks her promise, whereupon she accidently drops her ring down the kitchen sink drain. Uncle Read More

Petticoat Junction: Cannonball for Sale

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) returns to Hooterville, still bound and determined to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of business. This time Homer has come up with a surefire scheme: He puts the entire railroad up for sale! Before long, the townsfolk have sold practically everything they own to Read More

Petticoat Junction: My Pal Sam

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is delighted when his old pal Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) decides to vacation at the Shady Rest. Brimming with anticipation, Joe arranges all sorts of sporting expeditions for himself and Sam. Unfortunately for Joe, his "old pal" would rather stay at the hotel and while Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bad Day at Shady Rest

Synopsis: Self-styled deputy Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) informs everyone at the Shady Rest that a bank robbery has occurred and the bandit is still at large. This information piques the interest of a new guest at the hotel (Alan Reed Sr.)--who happens to be the bank robber! It takes the combined resources Read More

Petticoat Junction: Mae's Helping Hand

Synopsis: With Kate still "out of town" (star Bea Benaderet's illness kept her from appearing), the Shaddy Rest Hotel is taken over by her southern cousin Mae Belle Jennings (Shirley Mitchell). In characteristic fashion, Mae Belle manages to alienate everyone in town in record time. Goodness knows what fate Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate's Homecoming

Synopsis: After missing several episodes due to illness, Bea Benaderet returns to her familiar Petticoat Junction role as Kate Bradley, owner of Hooterville's Shady Rest Hotel. The entire town gears up for a gala homecoming party in Kate's honor, but there are a few hitches along the way--including a Read More

That Girl: Season 01

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Ted Bessel

Petticoat Junction: Kate and the Manpower Problem

Synopsis: Rosemary DeCamp, who would appear in later Petticoat Junction episodes as the Bradley girls' Aunt Helen, is here seen as Emily Mapes, an old school friend of Kate Bradley (Bea Benadaret). Having recently remarried, Emily is convinced that the widowed Kate should take upon herself a second husband. Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Cuts the Family Tree

Synopsis: In this conclusion to a two-part story arc, historian Priscilla Smith-Standish (Rosemary DeCamp) has uncovered evidence that the Clampetts are descendants of the original Mayflower settlers. Accordingly, Cousin Pearl "dolls up" in anticipation of meeting the blue-blooded Priscilla, while poor Mrs. Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Family Tree

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story arc, Rosemary DeCamp guest stars as Priscilla Smith-Standish, president of the Society for the Preservation of Early American Traditions. Snooty Mrs. Drysdale is determined to keep Mrs. Smith-Standish as far away as possible from "those dreadful Read More

13 Ghosts

Actors: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary de Camp, Donald Woods

Synopsis: Gimmick-loving producer William Castle strikes again with this fun haunted-house thriller which invited audiences to find the hidden ghosts roaming about a haunted house through a special process called "Illusion-O" by which patrons could employ a special pair of red-and-blue-colored glasses to Read More

Love That Bob: Season 05

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Still on NBC after moving from CBS a year earlier, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fifth and final season in first-run prime time. Bob Cummings returns in his signature role as professional photographer and self-styled ladies' man Bob Collins, with Ann B. Davis as Bob's Read More

Love That Bob: Season 04

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from its familiar Thursday night time slot to a Tuesday evening berth, and leaving CBS to return to NBC in the bargain, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fourth season. Even after all these years, Bob Collins (Bob Cummings), the series' cheerfully lascivious Read More

Love That Bob: Season 03

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Happy-go-lucky photographer Bob Collins (Bob Cummings) continues to ardently pursue his lovely models -- and for that matter, any other lovely lady who tickles his fancy -- as Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its third season. Also still on hand are future Brady Bunch Read More

Many Rivers to Cross

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which Read More

Strategic Air Command

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. Read More

Love That Bob: Season 02

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from NBC to CBS for its second season, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) also moved to a more advantageous time slot, Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Here it would remain for the next two years -- never a huge ratings hit, but always consistently popular with its target audience Read More

Love That Bob: Season 01

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: "Hold it! I think you're gonna like this picture!" With this jaunty assurance, Bob Cummings calmly snuggled into the late-Sunday-night NBC time slot previously occupied by The Hunter for the first season of the breezy sitcom Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show). Little time is wasted Read More

So This Is Love

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon, Walter Abel, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting her entrance cue, she reflects upon her life and the sequence of events that led her from a humble childhood in Tennessee to becoming one of the brightest stars in the opera Read More

Main Street to Broadway

Actors: Mary Murphy, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Shriner, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953 theatrical scene. The main plot concerns aspiring playwright Tony Monaco (Tom Burton), who pins his future on the possibility that Tallulah Bankhead will star in his first Read More

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the hot-and-cold romance between Doris Day and Gordon MacRae Read More

Scandal Sheet

Actors: Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary de Camp, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: The distinctive stamp of action-film director Phil Karlson is very much in evidence in Scandal Sheet. Broderick Crawford plays tabloid editor Mark Chapman, whose burgeoning success is threatened by the arrival of his wife Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), whom he deserted 20 years earlier. Hoping to Read More

The Treasure of Lost Canyon

Actors: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Henry Hull, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays Doc Brown, a somewhat seedy frontier sawbones who takes orphaned David (Tommy Ivo) under his wing. Doc knows that David is being victimized financially by crooked-attorney Read More

Night into Morning

Actors: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses himself in drink, despite the efforts of his friends and fellow faculty members. He is on the verge of suicide before he is salvaged the love of Nancy Davis (who off-screen was Read More

On Moonlight Bay

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his is a strictly secondary part herein. The Read More

The Big Hangover

Actors: Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly and boring," while the late William K. Everson regarded it as one of Hollywood's best and most underappreciated screwball comedies. Examine the premise and judge for Read More

Night Unto Night

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary de Camp, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars Ronald Reagan as John, a young scientist suffering from epilepsy (In 1951, Reagan would play another epileptic, baseball star Grover Cleveland Alexander, in The Winning Team). Viveca Lindfors Read More

Life of Riley [TV Series]

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Rosemary de Camp

The Life of Riley

Actors: William Bendix, James Gleason, Rosemary de Camp, Bill Goodwin, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: This comedy is based on the enduring radio series and chronicles the attempts of an airplane riveter to find a better paying, less physically taxing job. Chester A. Riley gets his chance when his employer's son falls in love with Riley's daughter. Wanting to make her father happy, the daughter Read More

Look for the Silver Lining

Actors: June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Charlie Ruggles, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood treatment in Look for the Silver Lining. June Haver, an accomplished dancer-singer in her own right, is well-cast as Miller, who rises from an appendage in her parents' vaudeville Read More

The Story of Seabiscuit

Actors: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary de Camp, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: The racehorse Seabiscuit really existed, but this is not his true story -- this is a romance and centers on lovely Margaret O'Hara (Shirley Temple), an Irish lass who comes to cheer on her uncle Shawn O'Hara's (Barry Fitzgerald) horse during the big races and ends up falling in love with handsome Read More

Nora Prentiss

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San Francisco doctor. Though the physician desperately wants to leave his wife, he lacks the courage to ask for a divorce. In retaliation, the singer accepts an offer to move East and Read More

From This Day Forward

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary de Camp, Bobby Driscoll, Henry Morgan, Wally Brown

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the early days of their marriage. When they meet in 1938, Bill is working as a machinist, and Susan is a clerk in a bookstore. They fall in love and decide to wed, but it's not Read More

Two Guys from Milwaukee

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Janis Paige, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then Warner Bros. could do the same. Lacking a Crosby or Hope, Warners paired Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (who like Crosby and Hope were good buddies off-screen) and came up Read More

Rhapsody in Blue

Actors: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Oscar Levant, Julie Bishop

Synopsis: There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh! That music! Director Irving Rapper had wanted Tyrone Power to play Gershwin, but Power was still serving in the Marines, so Rapper had to settle for Robert Alda--who isn't Read More

Danger Signal

Actors: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Rosemary de Camp, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: In this drama, an amoral, manipulative womanizer gets his comeuppance. The story begins as the handsome cad is witnessed quickly leaving a hotel room in the East. He has just stolen money, and a wedding band from a dead woman. He is next seen in L.A. living under an alias. There, he begins Read More

Weekend at the Waldorf

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the story, the cast makes pointed references to the earlier film. The posh Waldorf Hotel in the heart of New York is the setting for several plots and subplots. Ginger Rogers plays Read More

Too Young to Know

Actors: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dolores Moran, Harry Davenport, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next three years fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific. While there, he learns that his wife has left him and has given away his son--he didn't even know she was pregnant. Read More

Blood on the Sun

Actors: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Porter Hall, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on Read More

Pride of the Marines

Actors: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Ann Doran, John Ridgely, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal, defending a machine gun post and killing 200 Japanese before he is permanently blinded by a grenade. Despite being awarded the Navy Cross, Schmid returns home embittered by his Read More

Practically Yours

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway, Robert Benchley

Synopsis: The popular screen team of Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray stars in this wartime farce. MacMurray is an army pilot who develops engine trouble during a vital mission. Thinking he's about to die, MacMurray radios back his undying affection for his dog "Piggy." But the radio reception is fuzzy Read More

The Merry Monahans

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, Ann Blyth, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly grade-B material. During the first two decades of the 20th century the film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan (Jack Oakie). Because of his love Read More

Bowery to Broadway

Actors: Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Ann Blyth

Synopsis: Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so convinced that each has stolen ideas from the others. This bouncy musical chronicles their rivalry and the success they find after they finally team up. Unfortunately the success Read More

City without Men

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a group of women live in a boardinghouse near a prison to await the release of their men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

This Is the Army

Actors: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Julie Oshins, Charles Butterworth

Synopsis: The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 "barracks musical" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine servicemen, many of them either recently Read More

The Jungle Book

Actors: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: The Jungle Book isn't always faithful to the Rudyard Kipling original (in fact, it seldom is), but 1942 audiences swept up in the grandeur of the production values and the lush Technicolor photography didn't mind at all. Indian juvenile-star Sabu plays Mowgli, who having been lost in the jungle as Read More

The Commandos Strike at Dawn

Actors: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into Read More

Smith of Minnesota

Actors: Bruce P. Smith, Warren Ashe

Synopsis: This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interview with the famed halfback. In order to garner information, the scenarist is assigned to live with Smith. During the film, Smith shares his Read More

Eyes in the Night

Actors: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Katherine Emery, Horace McNally, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in MGM's Eyes in the Night. The plot is set in motion by Norma Lawry (Ann Harding), whose stepdaughter Barbara (Donna Reed) has been keeping company with washed-up actor Paul Read More

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Actors: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning

Synopsis: Yankee Doodle Dandy is no more the true-life story of George M. Cohan than The Jolson Story was the unvarnished truth about Al Jolson -- but who the heck cares? Dandy has song, dance, pathos, pageantry, uproarious comedy, and, best of all, James Cagney at his Oscar-winning best. After several Read More

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Actors: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement, Miss Bishop's former students wonder why their beloved teacher never Read More

Hold Back the Dawn

Actors: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel

Synopsis: Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (who actually directed this film). In flashback, we see that Boyer was once a conscienceless gigolo, desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Read More

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