Rosemary DeCamp
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Rosemary DeCamp (November 14, 1910-February 20, 2001) was an American television and movie actress.
She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and appeared in many Warner Brothers films, including Eyes in the Night (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, and Nora Prentiss (1947). She played the mother of the character played by Sabu in Jungle Book (1942).
DeCamp played Peg Riley in the early television sitcom The Life of Riley, was a regular on The Bob Cummings Show in the 1950s, and played Marlo Thomas' mother on That Girl in the 1960s. In addition she made guest appearances on many other television shows such Petticoat Junction. TV viewers in the 1960s also knew her from her many appearances in commercials for the laundry product 20 Mule Team Borax.
On 7 July 1946, her Beverly Hills home was damaged when a wing hit it after the experimental XF-11) piloted by Howard Hughes (recreated in the 2004 movie, The Aviator) crashed nearby. A piece of the wing and a part of the neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom, where she and her husband were sleeping, with no injuries.
She died at the age of 90 in Los Angeles, California of pneumonia.
In the radio drama Dr. Christian, Jean Hersholt played the doctor, Rosemary DeCamp was his nurse.
