Beatrice Roberts
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 7, 1905
- Died
- July 24, 1970
- Birthplace
- 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 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.
Filmography
Criss Cross 1949
as Nurse (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy 1948
as Maid (Uncredited)
For the Love of Mary 1948
as Dorothy
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid 1948
as Mother
The Egg and I 1947
as Nurse (Uncredited)
The Brute Man 1946
as Nurse (uncredited)
White Tie and Tails 1946
as Marie (uncredited)
The Killers 1946
as Nurse (uncredited)
Scarlet Street 1945
as Secretary (uncredited)
Strange Confession 1945
Actor
Hi, Beautiful 1944
as Hostess (uncredited)
Dead Man's Eyes 1944
Actor
Reckless Age 1944
as WAVE
The Invisible Man's Revenge 1944
as Nurse (uncredited)
Jungle Woman 1944
as Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Phantom Lady 1944
as Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Top Man 1943
as War Plant Worker
Fired Wife 1943
as Divorcee
Phantom of the Opera 1943
as Nurse (uncredited)
It Comes Up Love 1943
as Bernice
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943
as Barmaid (uncredited)
Bombay Clipper 1942
as Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Mob Town 1941
as Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Pioneers of the West 1940
as Anna Bailey
Mars Attacks the World 1938
as Azura, Queen of Mars
The Devil's Party 1938
as Helen McCoy
That Mothers Might Live 1938
as Passerby (uncredited)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars 1938
as Queen Azura
Love Takes Flight 1937
as Joan Lawson
Outlaws of the Orient 1937
as Alice
Bill Cracks Down 1937
as Susan Bailey
Park Avenue Logger 1937
as Peggy O'Shea
Sinner Take All 1936
as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary 1936
as Party Guest (uncredited)
China Seas 1935
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Naughty Marietta 1935
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
West Point of the Air 1935
as Woman in Party at Night Club
Once to Every Woman 1934
as Nurse (uncredited)
My Woman 1933
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage 1933
Actor
Credits from TMDB.