Spotted singing in a New York City nightclub by a Warner Brothers talent scout, Beverly Roberts' first role was in The Singing Kid (1936) with Al Jolson. A young Humphrey Bogart was her co-star in Two Against the World (1936). China Clipper (1936), a foreshadowing of the founding of Pan American Airways, teamed her with Pat O'Brien. God's Country ...
In my time, when an actress reached 30 and passed that so-called sexually desired age, that was it. Unless you were Joan Crawford or Greta Garbo. Older women have more opportunities now.
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Lived with Wynne Gibson for many years until the latter's death in 1987 of a cerebral thrombosis in Laguna Niguel, California, after suffering an attack in the home they shared.
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Made her Broadway debut in "Girls in Uniform" in the early 30s.
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Accepted as a teenager for dramatic training at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company.
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Educated at P.S. 35 and 44 in Brooklyn, then to a private school at Carrs Academy.
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Of English, Dutch, German and Welsh heritage, her father was a salesman and mother once worked at a bank before turning homemaker.
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Known for her assertive, tough-edged dames in Warner Bros. potboilers, her lady characters did everything from running a lumber camp and operating a fleet of buses to running medical missions overseas.
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