1888-03-02 ( 137 years old ) in Venice, Italy
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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.
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Movies
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942-02-26
Topper Returns
1941-03-21
Victory
1940-12-21
The Long Voyage Home
1940-11-16
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
Vigil in the Night
1940-02-05
Paris Honeymoon
1939-01-27
Suez
1938-10-28
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
The League of Frightened Men
1937-05-25
Maytime
1937-03-26
Seventh Heaven
1937-03-25
That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31
Mad Holiday
1936-11-13
Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10
Riffraff
1936-01-03
We're Only Human
1935-12-27
Remember Last Night?
1935-10-28
Curly Top
1935-07-26
One Frightened Night
1935-05-01
The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
The Lottery Lover
1935-02-05
Enchanted April
1935-02-01
Great Expectations
1934-10-22
A Lost Lady
1934-09-29
The Last Gentleman
1934-04-27
Mandalay
1934-02-10
Female
1933-11-11
Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
Bondage
1933-04-22
She Done Him Wrong
1933-02-09
The Washington Masquerade
1932-07-09
Night Court
1932-06-04
As You Desire Me
1932-05-28
Grand Hotel
1932-05-25
Married?
1926-02-17
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