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person_profile-Rafaela Ottiano

Rafaela Ottiano Died at age: 54

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Rafaela Ottiano

Date of Birth:

Mar 02, 1888

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Aug 14, 1942

Biography of

Rafaela Ottiano

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rafaela Ottiano (4 March 1888 – 18 August 1942) was an Italian-born American stage and film actress.

    Born in Venice, Italy, she emigrated with her parents to the United States, and was processed at Ellis Island, in 1910. Ottiano established herself as a stage actress in Europe before arriving in Hollywood in 1924 and appearing in American motion pictures. Ottiano's first film was in the John L. McCutcheon-directed drama The Law and the Lady (1924) opposite actors Len Leo, Alice Lake, and Tyrone Power, Sr.

    Ottiano was part of the original 1928 Broadway cast of the Mae West hit play Diamond Lil and reprised her role as Rita when the play was made into a film as She Done Him Wrong (1933), directed by Lowell Sherman. Throughout the 1930s, Rafaela Ottiano would often specialize in roles as sinister, maleveolent, or spiteful women, such as her role in the Tod Browning-directed horror film The Devil-Doll (1936), opposite Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan.

    Other notable film roles for Ottiano include Lena in As You Desire Me (1932) with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, and Hedda Hopper; Mrs. Higgins in the Shirley Temple musical-comedy Curly Top (1935); as a matron in the crime-drama Riffraff (1936), starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy; and as Suzette, Greta Garbo's devoted maid, in the Edmund Goulding-directed drama Grand Hotel (1932). When Grand Hotel was turned into a Broadway Musical in 1989, her character was renamed Rafaela Ottiano in honor of the actress.

    Ottiano's last film was the musical comedy I Married an Angel (1942), starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. During her career in film, she appeared in approximately 45 motion pictures, opposite such actors as Barbara Stanwyck, Conrad Nagel, Peter Lorre, Zasu Pitts, and Katharine Hepburn.

    Ottiano lived in the Times Square area during the Prohibition Era and never married. She died in 1942 in East Boston, Massachusetts of intestinal cancer at the age of 54.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Rafaela Ottiano, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Rafaela Ottiano

Found 38 Movies in total

... 1942

Topper Returns

Lillian ( Actor )

... 1941

Victory

Madame Makanoff ( Actor )

... 1940

The Long Voyage Home

Bella ( Actor )

... 1940

A Little Bit of Heaven

Mme. Lupinsky ( Actor )

... 1940

Vigil in the Night

Mrs. Henrietta Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1940

Paris Honeymoon

Fluschotska ( Actor )

... 1939

Suez

Maria De Teba ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Louise - Marie's Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

I'll Give a Million

Barmaid ( Actor )

... 1938

The League of Frightened Men

Dora Chapin ( Actor )

... 1937

Maytime

Ellen ( Actor )

... 1937

Seventh Heaven

Madame Frisson ( Actor )

... 1937

That Girl from Paris

Nikki's Personal Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Mad Holiday

Ning ( Actor )

... 1936

Anthony Adverse

Signora Bovino ( Actor )

... 1936

The Devil-Doll

Malita ( Actor )

... 1936

Riffraff

Matron (as Rafaelo Ottiano) ( Actor )

... 1936

We're Only Human

Mrs. Anderson ( Actor )

... 1935

Remember Last Night?

Mme. Bouclier ( Actor )

... 1935

Curly Top

Mrs. Higgins ( Actor )

... 1935

One Frightened Night

Elvira ( Actor )

... 1935

The Florentine Dagger

Lili Salvatore ( Actor )

... 1935

The Lottery Lover

Gaby's Maid ( Actor )

... 1935

Enchanted April

Francesca ( Actor )

... 1935

Great Expectations

Mrs. Joe ( Actor )

... 1934

A Lost Lady

Rosa ( Actor )

... 1934

The Last Gentleman

Retta Barr, Judd's wife ( Actor )

... 1934

Mandalay

Madame Lacalles ( Actor )

... 1934

Female

Della, Alison's Maid (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Ann Vickers

Mrs. Feldermans ( Actor )

... 1933

Bondage

Miss Trigge ( Actor )

... 1933

She Done Him Wrong

Russian Rita ( Actor )

... 1933

The Washington Masquerade

Mona Farrell ( Actor )

... 1932

Night Court

Evil Tongued Neighbor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

As You Desire Me

Lena ( Actor )

... 1932

Grand Hotel

Suzette ( Actor )

... 1932

Married?

Maid ( Actor )

... 1926