Rose Hobart

Rose Hobart was an American actress who also served as an official of the Screen Actors Guild. Born in New York City, she began on stage at 15 in the Chautauqua production Cappy Ricks and reached Broadway in 1923 in Lullaby at the Knickerbocker Theater. She belonged to Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre from its early days and in 1928 played Nina Rolf in The Comic Artist. Her work as Grazia in Death Takes a Holiday earned her a Hollywood contract. She appeared in more than 40 films over 20 years, among them A Lady Surrenders, East of Borneo, Scandal for Sale, Chances, and Compromised. In 1931 she acted opposite Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) as Muriel, Jekyll's fiancée. She often played the other woman in 1940s movies, and Bride of Vengeance marked her final major screen part. In 1994 she published an autobiography, A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point.