Beatrice Roberts

Born: 1905-03-07

From Wikipedia Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. She was briefly married to the cartoonist and showman Robert L. Ripley and a mistress of Louis B. Mayer. She married Robert Ripley at age 14 on October 31, 1919, about the time he invented his Believe It or Not cartoon strip. The marriage was short lived—they separated three months later and were divorced in 1926. Ripley never spoke about the marriage, calling himself a "confirmed bachelor". After her marriage, Roberts entered several beauty pageants including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown" award each time. She went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including Tall Timber (1937) and Love Takes Flight (also 1937), in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, a 1938 serial. She was a mistress to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer in 1935 and 1936, while under contract to his company. In the 1940s, Roberts married John Wesley Smith. Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final appearances were in Criss-Cross and Family Honeymoon. Her acting career never becoming the success she had dreamed of, she left Hollywood in 1949. She died in Plymouth, Massachusetts from pneumonia, aged 65.


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Criss Cross

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-04

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster...

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Scarlet Street

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-25

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful...

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The Killers

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1946-08-30

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...

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Phantom of the Opera

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-12

Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin...

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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

as Barmaid (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-05

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being...

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Phantom Lady

as Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1944-01-28

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

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The Egg and I

as Nurse (Uncredited)
Released: 1947-05-01

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and...

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China Seas

as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Released: 1935-08-09

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret...

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The Invisible Man's Revenge

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-09

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner...

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Wife vs. Secretary

as Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-28

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his...

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Strange Confession

as uncredited
Released: 1945-10-05

A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who...

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Naughty Marietta

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-29

A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued...

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Love Takes Flight

as Joan Lawson
Released: 1937-11-05

A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.

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My Woman

as Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-10-04

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

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Fired Wife

as Divorcee
Released: 1943-09-04

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it...

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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

as Queen Azura
Released: 1938-03-21

When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle...

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You Gotta Stay Happy

as Maid (Uncredited)
Released: 1948-10-28

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to...

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Park Avenue Logger

as Peggy O'Shea
Released: 1937-03-16

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of...

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The Brute Man

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1946-10-01

A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his...

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West Point of the Air

as Woman in Party at Night Club
Released: 1935-03-23

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

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Bombay Clipper

as Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-11

Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a...

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It Comes Up Love

as Bernice
Released: 1943-04-09

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited...

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Top Man

as War Plant Worker
Released: 1943-09-17

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his...

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Reckless Age

as WAVE
Released: 1944-08-01

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from...

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The Devil's Party

as Helen McCoy
Released: 1938-06-02

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

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Bill Cracks Down

as Susan Bailey
Released: 1937-03-22

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and...

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For the Love of Mary

as Dorothy
Released: 1948-09-01

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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Jungle Woman

as Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-01

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a...

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Mars Attacks the World

as Azura, Queen of Mars
Released: 1938-11-07

Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming...

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Mob Town

as Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-03

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

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That Mothers Might Live

as Passerby (uncredited)
Released: 1938-04-30

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The...

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Sinner Take All

as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-18

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York...

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White Tie and Tails

as Marie (uncredited)
Released: 1946-08-30

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying...

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Pioneers of the West

as Anna Bailey
Released: 1940-03-12

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by...

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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

as Mother
Released: 1948-08-11

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the...

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Outlaws of the Orient

as Alice
Released: 1937-08-20

Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his...

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