Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 07, 1905
Died
Jul 24, 1970
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
40 titles
Beatrice Roberts
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Criss Cross
Nurse (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
Maid (Uncredited)
For the Love of Mary
Dorothy
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Mother
The Egg and I
Nurse (Uncredited)
The Brute Man
Nurse (uncredited)
The Killers
Nurse (uncredited)
White Tie and Tails
Marie (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
Secretary (uncredited)
Strange Confession
Hi, Beautiful
Hostess (uncredited)
Dead Man's Eyes
Reckless Age
WAVE
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Nurse (uncredited)
Jungle Woman
Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Phantom Lady
Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
Top Man
War Plant Worker
Fired Wife
Divorcee
Phantom of the Opera
Nurse (uncredited)
It Comes Up Love
Bernice
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Barmaid (uncredited)
Bombay Clipper
Miss Kane - Secretary (uncredited)
Mob Town
Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Pioneers of the West
Anna Bailey
Mars Attacks the World
Azura, Queen of Mars
The Devil's Party
Helen McCoy
That Mothers Might Live
Passerby (uncredited)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Queen Azura
Love Takes Flight
Joan Lawson
Outlaws of the Orient
Alice
Bill Cracks Down
Susan Bailey
Park Avenue Logger
Peggy O'Shea
Sinner Take All
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary
Party Guest (uncredited)
China Seas
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Naughty Marietta
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
West Point of the Air
Woman in Party at Night Club
Once to Every Woman
Nurse (uncredited)
My Woman
Party Guest (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage