Rafaela Ottiano

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Venice, Italy, 1888-03-02

Died: 1942-08-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1926	Married?	Maid	0
2	1932	Grand Hotel	Suzette	69
3	1932	As You Desire Me	Lena	63
4	1932	Night Court	Evil Tongued Neighbor (uncredited)	64
5	1932	The Washington Masquerade	Mona Farrell	65
6	1933	She Done Him Wrong	Russian Rita	58
7	1933	Bondage	Miss Trigge	0
8	1933	Ann Vickers	Mrs. Feldermans	59
9	1933	Female	Della, Alison's Maid (Uncredited)	63
10	1934	Mandalay	Madame Lacalles	59
11	1934	The Last Gentleman	Retta Barr, Judd's wife	30
12	1934	A Lost Lady	Rosa	61
13	1934	Great Expectations	Mrs. Joe	62
14	1935	Enchanted April	Francesca	54
15	1935	The Lottery Lover	Gaby's Maid	30
16	1935	The Florentine Dagger	Lili Salvatore	57
17	1935	One Frightened Night	Elvira	53
18	1935	Curly Top	Mrs. Higgins	64
19	1935	Remember Last Night?	Mme. Bouclier	46
20	1935	We're Only Human	Mrs. Anderson	65
21	1936	Riffraff	Matron (as Rafaelo Ottiano)	50
22	1936	The Devil-Doll	Malita	68
23	1936	Anthony Adverse	Signora Bovino	58
24	1936	Mad Holiday	Ning	60
25	1936	That Girl from Paris	Nikki's Personal Maid (uncredited)	66
26	1937	Seventh Heaven	Madame Frisson	66
27	1937	Maytime	Ellen	65
28	1937	The League of Frightened Men	Dora Chapin	60
29	1938	I'll Give a Million	Barmaid	57
30	1938	Marie Antoinette	Louise - Marie's Maid (uncredited)	66
31	1938	Suez	Maria De Teba	52
32	1939	Paris Honeymoon	Fluschotska	30
33	1940	Vigil in the Night	Mrs. Henrietta Sullivan	60
34	1940	A Little Bit of Heaven	Mme. Lupinsky	10
35	1940	The Long Voyage Home	Bella	66
36	1940	Victory	Madame Makanoff	0
37	1941	Topper Returns	Lillian	64
38	1942	The Adventures of Martin Eden		60

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