13 Facts About Rose Hobart

When Rose Hobart was 15, she debuted professionally in Cappy Ricks, a Chautauqua production.

Rose Hobart was accepted for the 18-week tour because she told officials that she was 18.

Rose Hobart was an original member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre.

Rose Hobart appeared in more than 40 motion pictures over a 20-year period.

Under contract to Universal, Rose Hobart starred in A Lady Surrenders, East of Borneo, and Scandal for Sale.

Rose Hobart showed the film at silent film speed and projected it through a blue-tinted lens.

Rose Hobart often played the "other woman" in movies during the 1940s, with her last major film role in Bride of Vengeance.

Rose Hobart believed that she first came to the attention of anti-Communist activists because of her commitment to improving working conditions for actors in Hollywood.

Rose Hobart served on the board of the Screen Actors Guild and was an active participant in the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a group which anti-Communists like Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed was subversive.

In 1948, Rose Hobart was subpoenaed to appear before the Tenney Committee on Un-American Activities.

Rose Hobart never worked in film again, although she did work on stage, and, later as the blacklist eased, in the 1960s, she took on television roles, including a part on Peyton Place.

Rose Hobart had one child, son Judson Bosworth, from her third marriage to architect Barton H Bosworth.

In 1994, Rose Hobart published her autobiography, A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point.