Brooke, Hillary

Hillary Brooke ( born Hillary Brooke , nee Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson ), September 8, 1914 - May 25, 1999 ) - American actress.

Hillary brooke
Hillary brooke
With Paul Cavana in the movie Woman in Green (1945)
Date of Birth	September 8, 1914 ( 1914-09-08 )
Place of Birth	Queens , New York , USA
Date of death	May 25, 1999 ( 1999-05-25 ) ( aged 84)
Place of death	Bonsall, California , USA
Citizenship	USA
Profession	actress
Career	1937-1960
IMDb	ID 0111702

Born in the New York area of ​​Astoria, and at the beginning of her career, she worked as a model. Having made her debut on the big screen in the early 1940s, she changed her name to a shorter and more harmonious one, and also developed a special accent reminiscent of the British one, in order to somehow distinguish herself from other beginning actresses. Over the years of her film career, Brooke starred in four dozen films, including Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Horror (1942), Sherlock Holmes in the Face of Death (1943), Jane Eyre (1943), and the Ministry of Fear (1943) , “ Woman in Green ” (1945), “Invaders from Mars” (1953) and “The Man Who Knew Too Much ” (1956). In the 1950s, the actress worked a lot on television, where she was remembered for her roles in the TV shows The Abbott and Costello Show, I Love Lucy , My Little Margie, Perry Mason and Michael Shane.

The actress was married twice: the first marriage ended in divorce, and with her second husband, an employee of MGM Studios, Raymond A. Clan, she was together until his death in 1988. From her second husband, she gave birth to a son, Donald Kuhn, and also became the adoptive mother of his daughter from his first marriage. Hillary Brooke died of a pulmonary embolism in 1999 at the age of 84. ^[1] Her contribution to the US film industry is marked by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .