Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964).
生于罗得岛普罗维登斯，曾就读于潘布鲁克妇女学院、布郎大学、密执安大学戏剧学院。早年曾在地方电视台任时装评论员，还在纽约当健美模特儿。1937年进入电影界，与米高梅公司签订拍片合约，首先在影片中出演配角，直到40年代初，才成为米高梅影片公司的主要女演员之一。1940年，她在《费城故事》中的出色表演，使她获得了该处最佳女配角金像奖的提名；在演戏之余，她还在百老汇参加戏剧演出，她与拉尔夫．贝拉米合作演出了的百老汇名剧《国情咨文》。
澳洲亿演员，曾出演《朱门巧妇》、《蝴蝶梦》、《无人生还》等。
