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Rafaela Ottiano
Acting

Rafaela Ottiano
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1888-03-02,Venice, Italy
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

6.9

Grand Hotel
1932-05-25

One Frightened Night

5.5

One Frightened Night
1935-05-01

6.8

The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10

6.4

Curly Top
1935-07-26

The Florentine Dagger

5.7

The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30

She Done Him Wrong

5.8

She Done Him Wrong
1933-02-09

5.9

Ann Vickers
1933-09-26

Remember Last Night?

4.6

Remember Last Night?
1935-10-28

The Last Gentleman

3

The Last Gentleman
1934-04-27

0

Bondage
1933-04-22

Enchanted April

5.4

Enchanted April
1935-02-01

6.1

A Lost Lady
1934-09-29

Paris Honeymoon

3

Paris Honeymoon
1939-01-27

6.4

Topper Returns
1941-03-21

5.9

Mandalay
1934-02-10

5.4

Suez
1938-10-28

We're Only Human

6.5

We're Only Human
1935-12-27

As You Desire Me

6.2

As You Desire Me
1932-05-28

The Washington Masquerade

6.5

The Washington Masquerade
1932-07-09

A Little Bit of Heaven

1

A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10

I'll Give a Million

5.7

I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27

0

Victory
1940-12-21

Vigil in the Night

6

Vigil in the Night
1940-02-05

The Long Voyage Home

6.5

The Long Voyage Home
1940-11-16

The Lottery Lover

3

The Lottery Lover
1935-02-05

That Girl from Paris

6.3

That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31

0

Married?
1926-02-17

6.222

Maytime
1937-03-26

6.3

Female
1933-11-11

Anthony Adverse

5.7

Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26

6.6

Seventh Heaven
1937-03-25

6.3

Night Court
1932-06-04

Great Expectations

6.2

Great Expectations
1934-10-22

Marie Antoinette

6.288

Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26

6

Mad Holiday
1936-11-13

The Adventures of Martin Eden

6

The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942-02-26

5

Riffraff
1936-01-03

The League of Frightened Men

6

The League of Frightened Men
1937-05-25