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Phyllis Brooks

Actress / Model (person) / Film Actress / Stage Actress | * 07/18/1915 († 80, 08/01/1995) | Boise, Idaho (United States of America (USA))
Phyllis Brooks (July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995) was an American actress and model. She was born in Boise, Idaho. Some sources have also inaccurately cited 1914 as her year of birth, but 1915 is the correct year according to Social Security records. ()

Phyllis Brooks was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho on July 18, 1915. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl" due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), and The Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes.Along with fellow actress Una Merkel, and accompanied by noted actor Gary Cooper, Phyllis was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific Theater of War during World War II, on a USO tour. She was married to Torbert Macdonald, an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman who was John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard, and who remained a close friend and confidante throughout his life. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so he could complete his Harvard Law degree. Congressman Macdonald had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976.Phyllis continued performing in summer stock theater after her marriage, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedy's godson. She died on August 1, 1995 in Cape Neddick, Maine at the age of 80.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Music

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Movies with Phyllis Brooks as Actress(28)

as Maxine1945 The Unseen
as Marian Blair1945 High Powered
as Allison DuBois1944 Lady in the Dark
as Nita1944 Dangerous Passage
as Nanette1943 Hi'ya, Sailor
as Mary Johnson1943 Silver Spurs
as Dolly Adair1943 No Place for a Lady
as Dixie Pomeroy1941 The Shanghai Gesture
as Ann Perryman1940 The Flying Squad
as Vivian Wells1939 Charlie Chan in Reno
as Sarilla Cushing1939 Slightly Honorable
as Pamela Stuart1939 Lucky to Me
as Judy Hayes1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Helen Lindsay1938 Up the River
as Ellen Ward1938 City Girl
as Vicki Stone1938 Walking Down Broadway
as Ann Colby1938 In Old Chicago
as Barbara Shea1938 Little Miss Broadway
as Barbara 'Babs' Drake1938 Straight, Place and Show
as herself1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Evelyn Moore1937 You Can't Have Everything
as Valerie Barton1937 Dangerously Yours
as Undetermined Role1936 Two in the Dark
as Rowena1935 To Beat the Band
as Gay Blackstone1935 I've Been Around
as Gloria Seabury / Jeanette Hardwick1935 Foolish Hearts
as Sheila Barry1935 Another Face

Full Name: Phyllis Brooks
Born: Sunday, 07/18 1915 (July) in Boise, Idaho (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 08/01 1995 (August) in Cape Neddick (aged: 80)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Torbert Macdonald
Phyllis Brooks frequently works together with these people:
Robert Lowery (6x, Actor)
Eddie Collins (5x, Actor)
Sol M. Wurtzel (5x, Crew)
Claire Du Brey (4x, Actress)
Paul Hurst (4x, Actor)
Tony Martin (4x, Actor)
Jack Yellen (4x, Crew)
Alan Dinehart (4x, Actor)
Thomas Little (4x, Crew)
Paul McVey (4x, Cast)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:201106, Added: 07/21/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024