7.0
7.0
Grand Hotel
1932
as Suzette
Rafaela Ottiano
Acting
Born:March 2, 1888
Died:August 14, 1942(aged 54)
Birthplace:Venice, Italy
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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 (35 movies)
6.8
6.8
The Devil-Doll
1936
as Malita
6.6
6.6
That Girl from Paris
1936
as Nikki's Personal Maid (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
The Long Voyage Home
1940
as Bella
6.5
6.5
We're Only Human
1935
as Mrs. Anderson
6.5
6.5
The Washington Masquerade
1932
as Mona Farrell
6.5
6.5
Maytime
1937
as Ellen
6.4
6.4
Topper Returns
1941
as Lillian
6.4
6.4
Curly Top
1935
as Mrs. Higgins
6.4
6.4
Night Court
1932
as Evil Tongued Neighbor (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Seventh Heaven
1937
as Madame Frisson
6.3
6.3
As You Desire Me
1932
as Lena
6.2
6.2
Great Expectations
1934
as Mrs. Joe
6.2
6.2
Female
1933
as Della, Alison's Maid (Uncredited)
6.0
6.0
The League of Frightened Men
1937
as Dora Chapin
6.0
6.0
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
6.0
6.0
Mad Holiday
1936
as Ning
5.8
5.8
She Done Him Wrong
1933
as Russian Rita
5.7
5.7
I'll Give a Million
1938
as Barmaid
5.7
5.7
The Florentine Dagger
1935
as Lili Salvatore
5.7
5.7
Anthony Adverse
1936
as Signora Bovino
5.6
5.6
A Lost Lady
1934
as Rosa
5.6
5.6
Mandalay
1934
as Madame Lacalles
5.5
5.5
Ann Vickers
1933
as Mrs. Feldermans
5.3
5.3
One Frightened Night
1935
as Elvira
5.2
5.2
Suez
1938
as Maria De Teba
4.5
4.5
Enchanted April
1935
as Francesca
4.3
4.3
Remember Last Night?
1935
as Mme. Bouclier
3.0
3.0
The Last Gentleman
1934
as Retta Barr, Judd's wife
3.0
3.0
The Lottery Lover
1935
as Gaby's Maid
3.0
3.0
Paris Honeymoon
1939
as Fluschotska
1.0
1.0
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940
as Mme. Lupinsky
Married?
1926
as Maid
Victory
1940
as Madame Makanoff
Bondage
1933
as Miss Trigge
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