Rosalie Roy
Biography
She was born Rosalie Jones in Stanford, Texas, on 11th January 1911. She first appeared in Hollywood in 1930 and was signed as a starlet by Fox and loaned out to Warner Bros and other studios during her career. All of her 24 film parts from 1930 onwards, including Paramount on Parade as a Chorus Girl, and in 1935 , The Case of the Curious Bride as a Reporter, were minor roles, or chorus girls, and then she took a 11 year break from film. She did get to star in a low budget cinema serial called ' Clancy of the Mounted ' in 1932, but had limited screen time as Clancy's wife, despite 12 episodes being made. Between 1935 and 1945 it is known she was married twice and had a child from each marriage, Ivor and Melissa . In 1946 she returned to the screen in two minor role parts, one in a Bette Davis picture and the other starring Barbara Stanwyck. Then she emigrated to London in the late 1940s and started a relationship with a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, Alan Norwell Clark from Holmwood Lodge, Surrey, UK. Although there is documentation of friends congratulations and a newspaper announcement of their forthcoming marriage in 1950, there seems to be no marriage, between the two, officially registered. Nothing more was heard until her husband / partner, Alan, passed away in 1988, and her death in 2000, aged 89. Strangely, there was an old leather trunk discovered in a London house clearance, either before her death or just after, which contained an amazing collection of all her personal memorabilia from her Hollywood career and family life beyond to London. On YouTube, a six minute video is listed as ' The Curious Case of Rosalie Roy' . The trunk contents were allegedly sold to various buyers, eventually, and so sadly fragmenting this unique collection, and making it virtually impossible of obtaining any further information on her intimate personal life. IMDB have completely her wrong birth date, place and death date on their site. Her birth certificate was found within the memorabilia in her trunk, and the BFI do have her correct birth and death date / year on their site. ( Some of the above information is taken from the original eBay trunk sale page. There was a portion of Rosalie's personal details mentioned in the descriptive sales passage, written by the seller, Brian Grattan. He too, has now passed away)
Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.
Movie - 1930, 2h 15m • as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Minor Role (uncredited)
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Polly Granger, Beulah's Friend
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Secretary
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Bride
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Manicurist
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Rose Gregson
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Chorus Girl #1 (uncredited)
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Phone Operator
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.