Rose Hobart (born Rose Kefer; May , â€" August , ) was an American
actress and Screen Actors Guild official.Born in New York City, Hobart
was the daughter of a cellist in the New York Symphony Orchestra, Paul
Kefer, and an opera singer, Marguerite Kefer. Her parents' divorce
when she was resulted in Hobart and her sister, Polly, going to
France to live with their grandmother. When World War I began, they
came back to the United States and went to boarding schools. By , she
was a student at Kingston High School in Kingston, New York.When
Hobart was , she debuted professionally in Cappy Ricks, a Chautauqua
production. She was accepted for the -week tour because she told
officials that she was . At that same age, she was cast in Ferenc
Molnár's Liliom, which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobart's
Broadway stage debut was on September , at the Knickerbocker Theater,
playing a young girl in Lullaby. In , she played Charmian in Caesar
and Cleopatra.Hobart was an original member of Eva Le Gallienne's
Civic Repertory Theatre. In , she made her London debut, playing Nona
Rolf in The Comic Artist. During her career in theater, she toured
with Noël Coward in The Vortex and was cast opposite Helen Hayes in
What Every Woman Knows.
actress and Screen Actors Guild official.Born in New York City, Hobart
was the daughter of a cellist in the New York Symphony Orchestra, Paul
Kefer, and an opera singer, Marguerite Kefer. Her parents' divorce
when she was resulted in Hobart and her sister, Polly, going to
France to live with their grandmother. When World War I began, they
came back to the United States and went to boarding schools. By , she
was a student at Kingston High School in Kingston, New York.When
Hobart was , she debuted professionally in Cappy Ricks, a Chautauqua
production. She was accepted for the -week tour because she told
officials that she was . At that same age, she was cast in Ferenc
Molnár's Liliom, which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobart's
Broadway stage debut was on September , at the Knickerbocker Theater,
playing a young girl in Lullaby. In , she played Charmian in Caesar
and Cleopatra.Hobart was an original member of Eva Le Gallienne's
Civic Repertory Theatre. In , she made her London debut, playing Nona
Rolf in The Comic Artist. During her career in theater, she toured
with Noël Coward in The Vortex and was cast opposite Helen Hayes in
What Every Woman Knows.
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