Rosemary DeCamp(1910-2001)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
RoseMary De Camp was the quintessential small-town American mother, a
calming and steadying presence in scores of films in the 1940s and
1950s. She came to Hollywood after a successful career on the stage and
in radio, making her film debut in 1941. Though she worked for many
studios, she was most closely associated with Warner Bros., for whom
she made many pictures, often playing a young mother or the friend or
sister of the heroine. Her best-known role was probably as the mother
of George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney) in the classic Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). She also did a
lot of work on television; she was a regular on The Bob Cummings Show (1961) and played
Marlo Thomas' mother on That Girl (1966).