Beatrice Roberts
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.
Acting
Movie
Scarlet Street
as Secretary (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The Killers
as Nurse (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Barmaid (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Phantom of the Opera
as Nurse (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Criss Cross
as Nurse (uncredited)
1949
Movie
Phantom Lady
as Monteiro's Maid (uncredited)
1944
Movie
The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Nurse (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Wife vs. Secretary
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1936
Movie
The Egg and I
as Nurse (Uncredited)
1947
Movie
China Seas
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
1935
Movie
The Brute Man
as Nurse (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
as Mother
1948
Movie
Strange Confession
1945
Movie
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
Movie
Naughty Marietta
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1935
Movie
Jungle Woman
as Inquest Juror (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Pilgrimage
1933
Movie
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Maid (Uncredited)
1948
Movie
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
as Queen Azura
1938
Movie
That Mothers Might Live
as Passerby (uncredited)
1938
Movie
My Woman
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1933
Movie
Once to Every Woman
as Nurse (uncredited)
1934
Movie
The Devil's Party
as Helen McCoy
1938
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Sinner Take All
as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
1936