Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
7/18/1915
Place of Birth
Boise, Idaho, USA
Also Known As
Mary BrooksPhyllis SeilerPhyllis Walker
Phyllis Brooks
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 soc...
Known For
Slightly Honorable
as Sarilla Cushing
The Unseen
as Maxine
Silver Spurs
as Mary Johnson
Another Face
as Sheila Barry
Dangerously Yours
as Valerie Barton
Little Miss Broadway
as Barbara Shea
High Powered
as Marian Blair
In Old Chicago
as Ann Colby
Dangerous Passage
as Nita
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Lola Lee
The Shanghai Gesture
as Dixie Pomeroy
Lady in the Dark
as Allison DuBois
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Judy Hayes
Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Herself
Walking Down Broadway
as Vicki Stone
Up the River
as Helen Lindsay
You Can't Have Everything
as Evelyn Moore
No Place for a Lady
as Dolly Adair
City Girl
as Ellen Ward
Straight, Place and Show
as Barbara 'Babs' Drake
Career Timeline
1943
1939
1938
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Judy Hayes
Up the River
as Helen Lindsay
Straight, Place and Show
as Barbara 'Babs' Drake
Little Miss Broadway
as Barbara Shea
In Old Chicago
as Ann Colby
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Lola Lee
Walking Down Broadway
as Vicki Stone
City Girl
as Ellen Ward