Rosina Galli

Rosina Galli was an Italian character actress who built a Hollywood career from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. Born in Venice and part of a theatrical family, she started performing as a child. She appeared in roughly forty films, often cast as motherly women of Italian or Spanish background, usually in small parts. Her credits included They Met in Bombay (1941), where she acted alongside Clark Gable, and The Phantom of the Opera (1943), in which she was Christine's maid. She also had a role in Star in the Night (1945), Don Siegel's Academy Award-winning short, as the friendly wife of J. Carrol Naish. On Broadway she played Theresa in Walk into My Parlor (1941). She did Italian dubbing for actresses such as Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler, and Myrna Loy. Later she went back to Italy and made three more films until 1950. Galli died in 1969.