Bodil Rosing

Bodil Rosing

Bodil Rosing (left) and Irene Ware (right) in King Kelly of the U.S.A., 1934
Born Bodil Hammerich
(1877-12-27)December 27, 1877
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died December 31, 1941(1941-12-31) (aged 64)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1925–1941
Spouse(s) Eiliv Janson (1898–1919; divorced)
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.

Life and career

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. She worked afterwards as a stage actress in Denmark. She married a Norwegian doctor, Einer Jansen, in 1898; the couple had four children. They divorced in 1919. During the early 1920s, she made one or two stage appearances on Broadway while raising the children alone.[1][2] 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 "Old Maid" in F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece 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 with Greta Garbo, and also played the German neighbor of Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It With You by Frank Capra.

She 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bodil Rosing short biography, allmovie.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Bodil Rosing biography; ibdb.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Bodil Rosing short biography, allmovie.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
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