Acting
Rose Hobart
Born May 1, 1906 · New York City, New York, USA
Died August 29, 2000 · aged 94
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 Sept…
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Ziegfeld Girl · 1941Ziegfeld Girl
★ 6.61941
MovieDramaMusic
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1931Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
★ 7.21931
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
Nothing but the Truth · 1941Nothing but the Truth
★ 7.31941
MovieComedy
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Bride of Vengeance · 1949Bride of Vengeance
★ 5.41949
MovieDramaAdventure
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Cass Timberlane · 1947Cass Timberlane
★ 6.01947
MovieDramaRomance
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
Isle of the Dead · 1945Isle of the Dead
★ 6.01945
MovieHorrorMystery
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 superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Canyon Passage · 1946Canyon Passage
★ 6.81946
MovieWestern
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 line.
The Farmer's Daughter · 1947The Farmer's Daughter
★ 7.11947
MovieComedyRomance
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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Nothing but the Truth · 1941Nothing but the Truth
★ 7.31941
MovieComedy
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
Isle of the Dead · 1945Isle of the Dead
★ 6.01945
MovieHorrorMystery
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 superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Lady Be Good · 1941Lady Be Good
★ 5.51941
MovieComedyMusic
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Mrs. Carter Wardley
Susan and God · 1940Susan and God
★ 6.51940
MovieComedyDrama
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Irene Burroughs
Rose Hobart · 1936Rose Hobart
★ 5.51936
MovieMystery
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)

















