Beatrice Roberts
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 7, 1905
- Died
- July 24, 1970 (aged 65)
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Criss Cross
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
For the Love of Mary
Movie · as Dorothy
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Movie · as Mother
You Gotta Stay Happy
Movie · as Maid (Uncredited)
The Egg and I
Movie · as Nurse (Uncredited)
The Killers
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
White Tie and Tails
Movie · as Marie (uncredited)
The Brute Man
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
Movie · as Secretary (uncredited)
Strange Confession
Movie
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
Phantom Lady
Movie · as Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Reckless Age
Movie · as WAVE
Jungle Woman
Movie · as Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Dead Man's Eyes
Movie
Hi, Beautiful
Movie · as Hostess (uncredited)
It Comes Up Love
Movie · as Bernice
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Movie · as Barmaid (uncredited)
Phantom of the Opera
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
Fired Wife
Movie · as Divorcee
Top Man
Movie · as War Plant Worker
Bombay Clipper
Movie · as Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Mob Town
Movie · as Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Pioneers of the West
Movie · as Anna Bailey
The Devil's Party
Movie · as Helen McCoy
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Movie · as Queen Azura
That Mothers Might Live
Movie · as Passerby (uncredited)
Mars Attacks the World
Movie · as Azura, Queen of Mars
Bill Cracks Down
Movie · as Susan Bailey
Park Avenue Logger
Movie · as Peggy O'Shea
Love Takes Flight
Movie · as Joan Lawson
Outlaws of the Orient
Movie · as Alice
Wife vs. Secretary
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
Sinner Take All
Movie · as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
China Seas
Movie · as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
West Point of the Air
Movie · as Woman in Party at Night Club
Naughty Marietta
Movie · as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Once to Every Woman
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)
My Woman
Movie · as Party Guest (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage
Movie