Biographies: Phyllis Brooks - Actor

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An American actress, born in Boise, Idaho, USA on July 18, 1915 and died in Cape Neddick, Maine, USA on August 1, 1995. She married the American football player and politician Torbert H. Macdonald (1945-1976) and had four children. She is known for Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), Dangerously Yours (1937), and Little Miss Broadway (1938). She was known for being a model, stage actress, and Hollywood B-movie star from the mid-1930s to mid-1940s. She married wealthy soccer star Torbert MacDonald, a congressman, and became a socialite in political circles. Before she worked in the cinema, she worked as a model for several photographers in New York, for two years as a kind of fun. She was discovered by Universal, and debuted One Exciting Adventure (1934). Her best-ever role was in the melodrama The Shanghai Gesture (1941) with Jane Tierney, Walter Huston, and Victor Mateur. In 1945, she stopped acting to accompany her husband to complete his studies at Cambridge University Law School and then devoted herself to taking care of her children. She died in 1995 at the age of 80.

• 3 October 2021
• Christina Aziz