Phyllis Brooks
Birthday
1915/07/18
Day of death
1995/08/01 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Boise, Idaho, USA
Also know as
Mary Brooks, Phyllis Seiler, Phyllis Walker, The Ipana Girl
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 calle...Read more
Acting
(1935) I've Been Around
as Gay Blackstone
(1938) Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Judy Hayes
(1939) Charlie Chan in Reno
as Vivian Wells
(1941) The Shanghai Gesture
as Dixie Pomeroy
(1945) The Unseen
as Maxine
(1938) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Lola Lee
(1938) Little Miss Broadway
as Barbara Shea
(1938) In Old Chicago
as Ann Colby
(1944) Lady in the Dark
as Allison DuBois
(1939) Slightly Honorable
as Sarilla Cushing
(1944) Dangerous Passage
as Nita
(1938) City Girl
as Ellen Ward
(1935) Foolish Hearts
as Gloria Seabury / Jeanette Hardwick
(1935) Another Face
as Sheila Barry
(1943) Silver Spurs
as Mary Johnson
(1937) You Can't Have Everything
as Evelyn Moore
(1934) Strange Wives
as The Actress
(1935) To Beat the Band
as Rowena
(1940) The Flying Squad
as Ann Perryman
(1945) High Powered
as Marian Blair
(1935) McFadden´s Flats
as Mary Ellis Hall
(1937) Dangerously Yours
as Valerie Barton
(1938) Straight, Place and Show
as Barbara 'Babs' Drake
(1943) No Place for a Lady
as Dolly Adair
(1943) Hi'ya, Sailor
as Nanette
(1939) Lucky to Me
as Pamela Stuart
(1938) Walking Down Broadway
as Vicki Stone
(1938) Up the River
as Helen Lindsay
(1937) Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Herself