Hillary Brooke Overview:

Actress, Hillary Brooke, was born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson on Sep 8, 1914 in Astoria, NY. Brooke died at the age of 84 on May 25, 1999 in Bonsall, CA .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Hillary Brooke Quotes:

Buzz Johnson: You mean, you intend to take a trip to Africa?
Diana Emerson: Very differently, I'm planning a safari.


Blanche Ingram: [as she and Rochester emerge from the house into the garden:] It is a beautiful place, your Thornfield.
Edward Rochester: As a dungeon, it serves its purpose.
Blanche Ingram: Dungeon? Why, it's a paradise!
[Rochester grunts. Blanche goes on:]
Blanche Ingram: Though of course, if one lived here, one would really have to have a house in London, wouldn't one?
Edward Rochester: [dry:] Unquestionably. And a little apartment in Paris, perhaps a villa on the Mediterranean.
Blanche Ingram: How delightful that would be! But Thornfield would always be there, as a retreat from the world. A green haven of peace and... and love.
Edward Rochester: Love? Who's talking of love? All a fellow needs is a bit of distraction. A houseful of beautiful women every now and then to keep him from brooding on his woes -
[chuckling:]
Edward Rochester: peering too closely into the mysteries of his heart.
Blanche Ingram: That is, if he has a heart. And sometimes I wonder, Edward, if you really do have one.
Edward Rochester: [unperturbed:] Have I ever done or said anything to make you believe that I have? If so, I assure you it was quite unintentional.
Blanche Ingram: Are you never serious?
Edward Rochester: Never more than at this moment, except perhaps when I'm eating my dinner.
Blanche Ingram: Really, Edward, you can be revoltingly coarse sometimes.
Edward Rochester: [not as a question:] Can I ever be anything else.
Blanche Ingram: Can you?
[She lays a hand on his arm and draws him around to look at her]
Blanche Ingram: Would I have come to Thornfield if you couldn't?
Edward Rochester: Ha, that's a very nice point, Blanche. Would you, or would you not? We'll begin by considering the significant facts of the case. Mr. Rochester is revoltingly coarse, and as ugly as sin...
Blanche Ingram: [interrupting:] Edward! I...


Diana Emerson: Have you seen a short fat man and a tall thin man running through the jungle?
Frank Buck: No. I don't want to either.
Diana Emerson: Now I'll never catch up to them!


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Hillary Brooke Facts
Producers tended to think of her as too intelligent and self-possessed to be sexy, so she never got the lead and seldom got the man. She displayed a real flair for comedy, however, and appeared with Bob Hope (Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)) and Red Skelton (The Fuller Brush Man (1948)) and, of course, was a regular as Lou Costello's semi-girlfriend on "The Abbott and Costello Show" (1952). Some other notable pictures in which she was cast include The Philadelphia Story (1940), Lady in the Dark (1944), Jane Eyre (1943), Ministry of Fear (1944), The Enchanted Cottage (1945) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

Had two children with second husband: son Donald and stepdaughter Carol

Educated at Columbia University. Prior to her acting career, she worked as a photographer's model.

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