Curiosidades

Hobart believed she was blacklisted because she was a board member of the Actors Lab and was appearing at the same time in a controversial play about miscegenation, "Deep Are the Roots". However, Lee J. Cobb reportedly named her before the HUAC (House Un-American Affairs Committee) as a member of the Communist Party, which resulted in her blacklisting.

Edited "Haven News", the journal of the Motion Picture Country Home.

In 1994, she published an autobiography, "A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point".

Her father was first cellist for the New York Symphony and first violinist for the Metropolitan.

When artist Joseph Cornell re-cut A Leste de Bornéu (1931) into an avant-garde silent short, he re-titled it Rose Hobart (1936) after the female lead.

Appeared in a student film, "Rancho California", in 1988.

Hobart had already appeared in a stage version of "Liliom", starring Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne, before making her screen debut in the 1930 film version.

Upon her death at age 94, Hobart was survived by her only child, Judson Bosworth (born 1949).

Made her stage debut on the Chauutauqua circuit in the late 1910s.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994).