1. Hillary Brooke spent a year in the United Kingdom, mastering an RP accent that she used in several of her films.
11 Facts About Hillary Brooke
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Hillary Brooke frequently played English women in Hollywood films, and had such a role in her only British-made film, The House Across the Lake.
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Hillary Brooke co-starred in three Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death and The Woman in Green.
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Hillary Brooke was treated with reverence by the duo and was not a target of pranks and slapstick.
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Hillary Brooke appeared in Africa Screams and Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd with the comedy team.
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Hillary Brooke played Angela Randall in I Love Lucys "The Fox Hunt", which aired February 6,1956.
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Hillary Brooke retired from television in 1960 following guest appearances on Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Laura Renault and in Michael Shayne as Greta Morgan.
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Hillary Brooke then married assistant director Jack Voglin in 1941, and the couple had one child together, Donald, before divorcing in 1948.
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Hillary Brooke was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign in the 1952 presidential election.
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On May 25,1999, Hillary Brooke died from a blood clot in the lung at a hospital in Bonsall, California.
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Hillary Brooke was cremated with her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.