1906-05-01 ( 118 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
Rose Hobart 2
2007-05-09
Universal Horror
1998-10-08
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997-01-05
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997-01-05
Bride of Vengeance
1949-04-07
Mickey
1948-06-23
Cass Timberlane
1947-11-06
The Trouble with Women
1947-06-25
The Farmer's Daughter
1947-03-26
Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
The Cat Creeps
1946-05-17
Claudia and David
1946-02-25
Isle of the Dead
1945-09-01
Conflict
1945-06-15
The Brighton Strangler
1945-05-10
The Soul of a Monster
1944-08-17
Song of the Open Road
1944-06-21
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943-12-09
The Mad Ghoul
1943-11-12
Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Salute to the Marines
1943-09-02
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943-01-05
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942-11-01
Gallant Lady
1942-05-29
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942-04-17
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942-01-23
A Gentleman at Heart
1942-01-16
No Hands on the Clock
1941-12-01
Nothing But the Truth
1941-10-10
Lady Be Good
1941-09-18
I'll Sell My Life
1941-09-12
Singapore Woman
1941-05-17
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940-12-06
Susan and God
1940-06-07
Wolf of New York
1940-01-23
Tower of London
1939-11-17
Rose Hobart
1936-12-09
Convention Girl
1935-10-30
The Shadow Laughs
1933-03-26
Scandal for Sale
1932-04-01
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931-12-24
Compromised
1931-11-19
East of Borneo
1931-08-01
Chances
1931-07-18
A Lady Surrenders
1930-10-06
Liliom
1930-09-27
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