Bodil Rosing
Bodil Rosing | |
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Born | Bodil Frederikke Hammerich December 27, 1877 Copenhagen, Denmark |
Died | December 31, 1941 Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 64)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1925–1941 |
Spouse(s) | Eiliv Jansen
(m. 1898; div. 1919) |
Children | 4 |
Bodil Rosing (born Bodil Hammerich; December 27, 1877 – December 31, 1941) was a Danish-American film actress in the silent and sound eras.
Early years[]
The daughter of a music dean and his wife, a well-known pianist, Bodil Hammerich studied acting at the Royal Danish Theatre in the 1890s.
Career[]
Rosing worked as a stage actress in Denmark, performing for three years with the Royal Danish Theatre.[1] During the early 1920s, she made one or two stage appearances on Broadway, including Fools Errant (1922),[2] while raising her children alone.[3][4] She was retired from acting when she came to Hollywood in 1924, where her daughter married actor Monte Blue. There, she was suddenly chosen to play a film role, in Pretty Ladies (1925).
Rosing was under studio contract at MGM and often played matronly roles such as servants, housekeepers, cooks, or mothers. Her most notable role was perhaps Janet Gaynor's faithful maid in F.W. Murnau's silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). With the advent of sound film, she mostly portrayed foreigners and proved herself an extremely versatile actress in a variety of ethnicities, in about 85 films until her death. She appeared as the wife of her Danish compatriot, Jean Hersholt, in The Painted Veil (1934) with Greta Garbo, replacing the originally cast Beulah Bondi to bring a warmer look to the role.[5] She also played the German neighbor of Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It with You (1938) by Frank Capra.
Personal life[]
Rosing married a Norwegian doctor, Einer Jansen, in 1898; the couple had four children. They divorced in 1919.
Death[]
Rosing died of a heart attack, aged 64. Shortly before her death, Rosing stated about her acting: "My goal has always been to reach the heart of my audience."[3]
Partial filmography[]
- Pretty Ladies (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Tower of Lies (1925) - Midwife (uncredited)
- Lights of Old Broadway (1925) - Widow Gorman
- The Volga Boatman (1926) - Tartar Woman (uncredited)
- The Sporting Lover (1926) - Nora O'Brien
- It Must Be Love (1926) - Mom Schmidt
- The Midnight Kiss (1926) - Swedish maid
- The Return of Peter Grimm (1926) - Marta (uncredited)
- The City (1926) - Sarah
- Stage Madness (1927) - Maid
- Sunrise (1927) - The Maid
- Blondes by Choice (1927) - Caroline Bennett
- Wild Geese (1927) - Mrs. Sandbo
- The Law of the Range (1928) - Mother of Jim and the Kid
- The Big Noise (1928) - Ma Sloval
- The Port of Missing Girls (1928) - Elsa
- Ladies of the Mob (1928) - Yvonne's Mother
- Wheel of Chance (1928) - Sara Turkeltaub
- Out of the Ruins (1928) - Mère Gilbert
- The Fleet's In (1928) - Mrs. Deane
- The Woman from Moscow (1928) - Nadia
- King of the Rodeo (1929) - Mother
- Why Be Good? (1929) - Ma Kelly
- Eternal Love (1929) - Housekeeper
- Betrayal (1929) - Andre's Mother
- Broadway Babies (1929) - Durgan
- The Bishop Murder Case (1929) - Grete Menzel
- Hello Sister (1930) - Martha Peddie
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Mother of hospital patient (uncredited)
- A Lady's Morals (1930) - Innkeeper's Wife
- Oh, For a Man! (1930) - Masseuse (uncredited)
- Part Time Wife (1930) - Martha - the Cook
- Three Who Loved (1931) - Mrs. 'Aunt Anna' Larson
- Surrender (1931) - Domenica
- The Miracle Man (1932) - Townswoman (uncredited)
- Grand Hotel (1932) - Nurse Helping Old Lady Into Elevator (uncredited)
- Downstairs (1932) - Sophie - the Cook
- Six Hours to Live (1932) - Greta (uncredited)
- The Match King (1932) - Frau Necher (uncredited)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) - Matron (uncredited)
- The Crime of the Century (1933) - Hilda Ericson - Maid
- Reunion in Vienna (1933) - Kathie - the Krug Family Maid
- Ex-Lady (1933) - Mrs. Bauer - Helen's Mother
- Queen Christina (1933) - Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
- Hello, Sister (1933)
- Mandalay (1934) - Mrs. Kleinschmidt
- All Men Are Enemies (1934) - Landlady (uncredited)
- Little Man, What Now? (1934) - Frau Kleinholz
- Such Women Are Dangerous (1934) - Helma
- King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934) - Sylvia, Tania's Chaperone
- Crimson Romance (1934) - Mama von Bergen
- The Painted Veil (1934) - Frau Koerber
- A Night at the Ritz (1935) - Mama Jaynos
- Roberta (1935) - Fernande
- Four Hours to Kill! (1935) - Ma
- Let 'Em Have It (1935) - Mrs. Keefer
- Thunder in the Night (1935) - Lisa
- Peter Ibbetson (1935) - Minor Role (scenes deleted)
- Hearts in Bondage (1936) - Mrs. Adams
- Libeled Lady (1936) - Wife of the Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Rose Bowl (1936) - Mrs. Schultz (uncredited)
- The Plot Thickens (1936) - Theresa the Cook (uncredited)
- Thin Ice (1937) - Otto's Wife (uncredited)
- Michael O'Halloran (1937) - Mrs. Polska
- Heidi (1937) - First Village Woman (uncredited)
- Breakfast for Two (1937) - Nanny - Blair's Household Staff (uncredited)
- Conquest (1937) - Anna - Servant (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years (1938) - Martha
- You Can't Take It with You (1938) - Mrs. Schmidt
- The Great Waltz (1938) - Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
- Hotel Imperial (1939) - Ratty Old Woman (uncredited)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) - Passenger on Boat
- The Star Maker (1939) - Mrs. Swanson
- Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) - Charlotte
- Hitler – Beast of Berlin (1939) - Frau Kohler
- Florian (1940) - Anna - Diana's Maid (uncredited)
- Four Sons (1940) - Townswoman (uncredited)
- The Mortal Storm (1940) - Old Woman on Train (uncredited)
- Reaching for the Sun (1941) - Rita's Mother
- They Dare Not Love (1941) - Leni (uncredited)
- No Greater Sin (1941) - 'Ma' James
- Man at Large (1941) - Klara, Botany's Housekeeper
- Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941) - Mrs. Polgar (final film role)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Bodil Rosing Will Entertain Young Son". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. June 30, 1926. p. 25. Retrieved May 14, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis (1923). The Best Plays. Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bodil Rosing short biography, allmovie.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
- ^ Bodil Rosing biography; ibdb.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
- ^ Bret, David (June 25, 2012). Greta Garbo: A Divine Star. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84954-353-8.
External links[]
- Bodil Rosing at IMDb
- portrait of Bodil Rosing(NY Public Library, Billy Rose Collection)
- Bodil Rosing at Find a Grave
- Bodil Rosing in a scene with John Gilbert from Downstairs(1932) on YouTube
- 1877 births
- 1941 deaths
- American film actresses
- Actresses from Copenhagen
- Danish emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American actresses
- American silent film actresses
- Danish stage actresses
- 20th-century Danish actresses
- Danish American
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)