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Phyllis Brooks

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Phyllis Brooks
Brooks in 1939
Born(1915-07-18)July 18, 1915
Boise, Idaho, U.S.
DiedAugust 1, 1995(1995-08-01) (aged 80)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Model
Years active1934–1952
Known for
Spouse
Torbert H. Macdonald
(m. 1945; died 1976)
Children4

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.

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Career

Modeling

Brooks wearing a coat and fedora (1937)

Brooks was a model for two years before progressing to a career in film. She stated, "I started posing for photographers as a lark, and it was a lot of fun."[2]

She had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl", due to her work for that product.[1]

Film

Initially known as Mary Brooks, she began her career in films in 1934[1] at age 20, in I've Been Around.[3] 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).

Phyllis Brooks with actor Cesar Romero, c. 1940

She appeared in Sidney Toler's Charlie Chan series, in the Shirley Temple films Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and in Little Miss Broadway.[4]

Stage

On Broadway, Brooks appeared in Stage Door (1936–37), Panama Hattie (1940–42), The Night Before Christmas (1941), and Round Trip (1945).[5]

Wartime activities

Robert Lowery and Brooks on High Powered (1945)
Phyllis Brooks (middle) with Gary Cooper and Una Merkel at a Brisbane press conference on their way to entertain the troops (1943)

Brooks was reported (UK Sunday Telegraph December 1942) as being president of Parties Unlimited Inc. in an article about Hollywood at war. Along with actress Una Merkel and accompanied by film star Gary Cooper, Brooks was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific theater of war during World War II on a USO tour.

Personal life

Brooks was engaged at one time to Cary Grant.[6] She married Torbert Macdonald on June 23, 1945, in Tarrytown, New York.[7] Macdonald, who had been John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard University, went on to become an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman.

Brooks moved east to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so that he could complete his studies at Harvard Law School. He had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. Macdonald died in office in 1976.[8][9]

Death

Brooks died on August 1, 1995, in Cape Neddick, Maine, aged 80.[3]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Katz, Ephraim (1979). The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume. Perigee Books; ISBN 0-399-50601-2, pg. 170.
  2. ^
  3. ^ a b "Phyllis Brooks; Model Acted on Stage, Screen". Los Angeles Times. August 5, 1995. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
  4. ^ "Phyllis Brooks, 80, Actress and Hostess". The New York Times. August 3, 1995. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  5. ^ "Phyllis Brooks". Playbill Vault. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  6. ^ "Phyllis Brooks, 80, Actress and Hostess". The New York Times. August 3, 1995. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  7. ^ "Marriages". Billboard. July 28, 1945. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  8. ^ "Phyllis Brooks, 80, Actress and Hostess". The New York Times. August 3, 1995. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  9. ^ "Biographies of the Representatives of the 7th District of Massachusetts". Retrieved April 19, 2016.

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