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The Unseen

as Maxine

1945
Lady in the Dark

as Allison DuBois

1944
Silver Spurs

as Mary Johnson

1943
No Place for a Lady

as Dolly Adair

1943
Hi'ya, Sailor

as Nanette

1943
The Shanghai Gesture

as Dixie Pomeroy

1941
The Flying Squad

as Ann Perryman

1940
Charlie Chan in Reno

as Vivian Wells

1939
Slightly Honorable

as Sarilla Cushing

1939
Charlie Chan in Honolulu

as Judy Hayes

1938
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Lola Lee

1938
Little Miss Broadway

as Barbara Shea

1938
In Old Chicago

as Ann Colby

1938
City Girl

as Ellen Ward

1938
You Can't Have Everything

as Evelyn Moore

1937
Foolish Hearts

as Gloria Seabury / Jeanette Hardwick

1935
Phyllis Brooks Phyllis Brooks

Birthday

1915-07-18

Place of Birth

Boise, Idaho, USA

Biography

Phyllis Brooks was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho on July 18, 1915. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl" due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), and the Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes. Along with fellow actress Una Merkel, and accompanied by noted actor Gary Cooper, Phyllis was the first civilian woman to travel to the Pacific Theater of War during World War II, on a USO tour. She was married to Torbert Macdonald, an 11-term Massachusetts Congressman who was John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard, and who remained a close friend and confidante throughout his life. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her new husband in 1945 so he could complete his Harvard Law degree. Congressman Macdonald had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976. Phyllis continued performing in summer stock theater after her marriage, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedy's godson. She died on August 1, 1995 in Cape Neddick, Maine at the age of 80.
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