Bodil Rosing
Biography
Bodil Rosing was a Danish American actress whose career covered stage and screen from the silent era through the early sound period. Born in Copenhagen, she trained at the Royal Danish Theatre in the 1890s and performed there for three years. She made her stage debut in 1898 in Gurli at the Dagmar Theatre and played Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew in 1904. After a Broadway appearance in Fools Errant (1922), she moved to Hollywood in 1924 and was cast in Pretty Ladies (1925). Under contract at MGM, she often played matronly characters such as servants, housekeepers, cooks, and mothers. Her most notable role was probably Janet Gaynor's maid in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). In sound films she frequently portrayed foreign characters, including Jean Hersholt's wife in The Painted Veil (1934) and Lionel Barrymore's German neighbor in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You (1938).
64years old at death
- Born Copenhagen
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Bodil Hammerich, Bodil Ann Rosing and Bodil Janson
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 14 years1927 to 1941
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Early training
Rosing trained in acting at the Royal Danish Theatre during the 1890s, where she studied the craft before going on to perform.
First role
Rosing first appeared on stage in 1898, in the comedy Gurli by Henrik Christiernsson, which was performed at the Dagmar Theatre.
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