Rose Hobart
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.953 |
Birthday | 1906-05-01 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Роуз Хобарт, Rose Kefer, |
1931
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7.264/269
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 l...
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1945
Conflict
6.5/64
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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1939
Tower of London
5.9/38
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Tower of London
1946
Canyon Passage
6.6/57
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the l...
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Canyon Passage
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
6.909/33
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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The Farmer's Daughter
1944
The Soul of a Monster
4.7/7
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
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The Soul of a Monster
1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
3.7/3
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
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1941
Nothing But the Truth
7.1/8
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
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1942
Mr. and Mrs. North
4.5/6
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
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Mr. and Mrs. North
1947
Cass Timberlane
5.9/7
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1945
The Brighton Strangler
5.9/10
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1941
No Hands on the Clock
4.9/7
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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1930
Liliom
6.6/14
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1932
Scandal for Sale
7/1
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1940
Wolf of New York
7/1
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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1931
Chances
7/3
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1935
Convention Girl
6/1
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1948
Mickey
6/1
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
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1946
Claudia and David
6/2
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Claudia and David
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
0/0
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Bogart: The Untold Story
1930
A Lady Surrenders
3.5/2
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1941
I'll Sell My Life
6/1
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.
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I'll Sell My Life
1931
East of Borneo
5/4
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1941
Ziegfeld Girl
6.5/32
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Ziegfeld Girl
1940
Susan and God
6.5/14
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Susan and God
1933
The Shadow Laughs
4.2/3
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.
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1941
Lady Be Good
5.4/13
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
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1942
A Gentleman at Heart
6/1
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1943
Salute to the Marines
6.8/4
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1943
The Mad Ghoul
6.033/30
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1947
The Trouble with Women
0/0
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1943
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
5/2
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.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1936
Rose Hobart
5.384/43
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect....
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Rose Hobart
1998
Universal Horror
7.2/18
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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1941
Singapore Woman
6.75/4
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Singapore Woman
1942
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
4/1
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1942
Gallant Lady
5/1
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.
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Gallant Lady
1946
The Cat Creeps
4.7/10
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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The Cat Creeps
1945
Isle of the Dead
6.1/108
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a supers...
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1942
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
5.3/3
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2007
Rose Hobart 2
0/0
An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece
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1943
Swing Shift Maisie
6.5/3
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Swing Shift Maisie
1944
Song of the Open Road
0/0
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...
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1940
A Night at Earl Carroll's
3.5/4
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1949
Bride of Vengeance
4.5/2
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1997
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
0/0
This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archiva...
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Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1931
Compromised
1/1
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious ti...
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