Beatrice Roberts
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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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Films (40)
Criss Cross
1949 · Nurse (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · Maid (Uncredited)
For the Love of Mary
1948 · Dorothy
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948 · Mother
The Egg and I
1947 · Nurse (Uncredited)
The Brute Man
1946 · Nurse (uncredited)
The Killers
1946 · Nurse (uncredited)
White Tie and Tails
1946 · Marie (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
1945 · Secretary (uncredited)
Strange Confession
1945
Hi, Beautiful
1944 · Hostess (uncredited)
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
Reckless Age
1944 · WAVE
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944 · Nurse (uncredited)
Jungle Woman
1944 · Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Phantom Lady
1944 · Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Top Man
1943 · War Plant Worker
Fired Wife
1943 · Divorcee
Phantom of the Opera
1943 · Nurse (uncredited)
It Comes Up Love
1943 · Bernice
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943 · Barmaid (uncredited)
Bombay Clipper
1942 · Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Mob Town
1941 · Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Pioneers of the West
1940 · Anna Bailey
Mars Attacks the World
1938 · Azura, Queen of Mars
The Devil's Party
1938 · Helen McCoy
That Mothers Might Live
1938 · Passerby (uncredited)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
1938 · Queen Azura
Love Takes Flight
1937 · Joan Lawson
Outlaws of the Orient
1937 · Alice
Bill Cracks Down
1937 · Susan Bailey
Park Avenue Logger
1937 · Peggy O'Shea
Sinner Take All
1936 · Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · Party Guest (uncredited)
China Seas
1935 · Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Naughty Marietta
1935 · Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
West Point of the Air
1935 · Woman in Party at Night Club
Once to Every Woman
1934 · Nurse (uncredited)
My Woman
1933 · Party Guest (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage
1933
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