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Beatrice Roberts
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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 m…
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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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1949
Criss Cross
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
Movie Maid (Uncredited)
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1948
For the Love of Mary
Movie Dorothy
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1948
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Movie Mother
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1947
The Egg and I
Movie Nurse (Uncredited)
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1946
The Brute Man
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1946
The Killers
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1946
White Tie and Tails
Movie Marie (uncredited)
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1945
Scarlet Street
Movie Secretary (uncredited)
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1945
Strange Confession
Movie
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1944
Hi, Beautiful
Movie Hostess (uncredited)
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1944
Dead Man's Eyes
Movie
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1944
Reckless Age
Movie WAVE
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1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1944
Jungle Woman
Movie Inquest Juror (uncredited)
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1944
Phantom Lady
Movie Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
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1943
Top Man
Movie War Plant Worker
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1943
Fired Wife
Movie Divorcee
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1943
Phantom of the Opera
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1943
It Comes Up Love
Movie Bernice
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1943
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Movie Barmaid (uncredited)
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1942
Bombay Clipper
Movie Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
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1941
Mob Town
Movie Tenement Girl (uncredited)
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1940
Pioneers of the West
Movie Anna Bailey
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1938
Mars Attacks the World
Movie Azura, Queen of Mars
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1938
The Devil's Party
Movie Helen McCoy
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1938
That Mothers Might Live
Movie Passerby (uncredited)
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1938
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Movie Queen Azura
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1937
Love Takes Flight
Movie Joan Lawson
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1937
Outlaws of the Orient
Movie Alice
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1937
Bill Cracks Down
Movie Susan Bailey
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1937
Park Avenue Logger
Movie Peggy O'Shea
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1936
Sinner Take All
Movie Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
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1936
Wife vs. Secretary
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
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1935
China Seas
Movie Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
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1935
Naughty Marietta
Movie Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
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1935
West Point of the Air
Movie Woman in Party at Night Club
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1934
Once to Every Woman
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
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1933
My Woman
Movie Party Guest (Uncredited)
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1933
Pilgrimage
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