Rosemary DeCamp

• Name — Rosemary DeCamp • Born — 14 November 1910 • Birthplace — Prescott, Arizona Territory, U.S. • Died — 20 February 2001 • Place of death — Newport Beach, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1937–1989 • Children — 4

Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was born in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona on November 14, 1910 to William Valentine DeCamp and Margaret Elizabeth Hinman.

DeCamp first came to fame in November 1937, when she took the role of Judy Price, the secretary/nurse of Dr. Christian in the long-running Dr. Christian radio series. She also played in The Career of Alice Blair, a transcribed syndicated soap opera that ran in 1939–1940.

DeCamp was married to Inglewood Municipal Judge John Ashton Shidler for 57 years from 1941 until his death in 1998. The Shidlers raised four daughters: Margaret, Martha, Valerie, and Nita. Outliving most of her contemporaries, DeCamp died of pneumonia in 2001, age 90. She was cremated and her ashes given to her daughter. DeCamp was the author of a children's book, Here, Duke! The Adventures of an Irish Setter, which was published by the David McKay Company, in 1962. In 2009, an autobiographical book of her life in film and television titled Rosemary De Camp: Tigers in My Lap was published posthumously. DeCamp was an active Democrat in California.

• Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) as Minna Fields • Hold Back the Dawn (1941) as Berta Kurz • Jungle Book (1942) as Messua • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as Nellie Cohan • Smith of Minnesota (1942) as Mrs. Smith • Eyes in the Night (1942) as Vera Hoffman • Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) as Hilma Arnesen • City Without Men (1943) as Mrs. Slade • This Is the Army (1943) as Ethel Jones • The Merry Monahans (1944) as Lillian Miles • Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Bessie Kirby • Practically Yours (1944) as Ellen Macy • Blood on the Sun (1945) as Edith Miller • Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as Rose Gershwin • Pride of the Marines (1945) as Virginia Pfeiffer • Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) as Anna • Danger Signal (1945) as Dr. Jane Silla • Too Young to Know (1945) as Mrs. Enright • From This Day Forward (1946) as Martha Beesley • Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) as Nan • Nora Prentiss (1947) as Lucy Talbot • The Life of Riley (1949) as Peg Riley • Night Unto Night (1949) as Thalia Shawn • Look for the Silver Lining (1949) as Mama Miller • The Story of Seabiscuit (1949) as Mrs. Charles S. Howard • The Big Hangover (1950) as Claire Bellcap • Night into Morning (1951) as Mrs. Annie Ainley • On Moonlight Bay (1951) as Alice Winfield • Scandal Sheet (1952) as Charlotte Grant • The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952) as Samuella • By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) as Alice Winfield • Main Street to Broadway (1953) as Mrs. Craig • Man on a Bus (1955) • Many Rivers to Cross (1955) as Lucy Hamilton • Strategic Air Command (1955) as Mrs. Thorne • 13 Ghosts (1960) as Hilda Zorba • Rawhide (1961) – Mrs. Armstrong in S4:E27, "Incident Near Gloomy River" • The Beverly Hillbillies (1963) as Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish • That Girl (1966-1971) as Mrs. Marie • Petticoat Junction (1964) as Emily Mapes, (1968) Aunt Helen • The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1980) as Mrs. Lobo • Saturday the 14th (1981) as Aunt Lucille • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981) as Buck's mother • B.J. and the Bear (1981) as Hatsie Tipton • A Chip of Glass Ruby (1983) as Mother