Vern's Longtime Date: Roberta Townsend a/k/a Hillary Brooke - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

missy's pop pop · 11-24-2013, 12:00 AM

Does anyone know if Hillary Brooke did anything other than playing Roberta Townsend on "My Little Margie" and essentially herself on "Abbott and Costello?"

Some years ago, YouTube had some mid-fifties commercials for Kelvinator, in which Miss Brooke demonstrated the "fabulous Foodarama" refrigerator-freezer and "the new 1956 Kelvinator automatic washer" with three-way washing action. I presume these were shown on "Disneyland," then sponsored by American Motors, but that's all I know of her.

Cincy Guy · 04-11-2014, 10:07 AM

Hillary Brooke (1914-1999) was in numerous motion pictures starting in the late 1930's up into the 1950's and then acted in countless TV shows during the 1950's. Perhaps the best-known motion picture she was in would be Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" which starred Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day.

missy's pop pop · 06-07-2014, 08:33 PM

Silly me! The lovely Miss Brooke was Angela Townsend in the 1956 "I Love Lucy" episode "The Fox Hunt"!

11-24-2013, 12:00 AM	#1
missy's pop pop Hooray for "Hazel!" Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 19, 2013 Location: St. Louis Posts: 396	Vern's Longtime Date: Roberta Townsend a/k/a Hillary Brooke Does anyone know if Hillary Brooke did anything other than playing Roberta Townsend on "My Little Margie" and essentially herself on "Abbott and Costello?" Some years ago, YouTube had some mid-fifties commercials for Kelvinator, in which Miss Brooke demonstrated the "fabulous Foodarama" refrigerator-freezer and "the new 1956 Kelvinator automatic washer" with three-way washing action. I presume these were shown on "Disneyland," then sponsored by American Motors, but that's all I know of her.

06-07-2014, 08:33 PM	#3
missy's pop pop Hooray for "Hazel!" Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 19, 2013 Location: St. Louis Posts: 396	(V8 bop) How could I forget "I Love Lucy"? Silly me! The lovely Miss Brooke was Angela Townsend in the 1956 "I Love Lucy" episode "The Fox Hunt"!

04-11-2014, 10:07 AM	#2
Cincy Guy Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 20, 2003 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 230	Hillary Brooke (1914-1999) was in numerous motion pictures starting in the late 1930's up into the 1950's and then acted in countless TV shows during the 1950's. Perhaps the best-known motion picture she was in would be Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" which starred Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day.