Anna Demetrio
Anna Demetrio | |
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Born | 8 November 1890 |
Died | 8 November 1959 (aged 69) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1933-1952 (film & TV) |
Anna Demetrio (1890[1]–1959) was an Italian-born American film actress.[2] Speaking English with a heavy accent, she often played stock foreign characters in a series of supporting roles. In 1950 she starred in the sitcom Mama Rosa in which she played the title character.
Selected filmography[]
- Too Much Harmony (1933)
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
- In Old Mexico (1938)
- Escape to Paradise (1939)
- Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
- Miss V from Moscow (1942)
- Submarine Base (1943)
- Dragon Seed (1944)
- Call of the South Seas (1944)
- Appointment with Murder (1948)
- September Affair (1950)
References[]
- ^ "Ancestry.com".
- ^ McLaughlin p.170
Bibliography[]
- McLaughlin, Robert. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1890 births
- 1959 deaths
- Italian emigrants to the United States
- Italian film actresses
- American film actresses
- Actresses from Rome
- 20th-century American actresses
- Italian screen actor stubs