Hillary Brooke
Acting
Biography
Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson) was an American screen and television actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films.
Born: September 8, 1914
Place of Birth: Astoria, New York, USA
Known For
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
The Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
The Enchanted Cottage
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
The Abbott and Costello Show
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies, newsreel footage and their trademark "Who's on First?" routine, shown in its entirety.
The Star and the Story
Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors that went onto bigger things.
Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Filmography
as Hillary (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Julia Bulette
as Doris Cole
as Winifred O'Hara
as Laura Renault
as Phyllis Warren
as Jan Peterson
as Countess
as Nora Nielson
as Jane Murdock
as Carol Forrest
as Vivian Crosby
as Eve Carter
as Peggy Lord
as Mrs. Mary MacLean
as Evelyn Cantrell
as Maxine's Friend
as First Lt. Phyllis Turnbull
as Capt. Bonney
as Hillary Brooke
as Mary Webb
as Angela
as Marla Stevens
as Square Deal Sal
as Addie Wilson
as Lydia Nevil
as Shirley Pedigrew
as 'Countess' Margo
as Gloria Barton
as Doris King (Jackson)
as Flo Woodbury
as Linda Waring
as Diana Emerson
as Mildred Trist
as Lorelei Kilbourne
as Sandra Marlowe
as Lorelei Kilbourne
as Lorelei Kilbourne
as Meg Saladine
as Patti Leeds
as Mme. Pompadour
as Lorelei Kilbourne
as Lynn Stafford
as Arline Cole
as Nina Mallory
as Kate
as Barbara Nuboult
as Lydia Marlowe
as Beatrice Alexander
as Kathleen Carson
as Mrs. Bellane #2
as Alice Todd
as Blanche Ingram
as Sally Musgrave
as Jill Grandis
as Pamela Hart
as Girl at the Inn (uncredited)
as Hillary
as Dress Shop Clerk Hotel-Caller (uncredited)
as Hillary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Arnold (uncredited)
as Georgia Deering
as Modern Schoolteacher (uncredited)
as House Guest (Uncredited)
as Sue Brown
as Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
as Party Guest
as Horsewoman
as Second Girl in Powder Room (uncredited)
as Blonde On Stage
as Chorine