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38
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Actor
Rafaela Ottiano
Acting
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Movies: 38Series: 0
TMDB ID: 103490
IMDb ID: nm0653188
Known for: Acting
Born: March 2, 1888
Died: August 14, 1942
Age: 54
Place of birth: Venice, Italy
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1926 - 1942
Years active: 17
Average TMDB rating: 6.38
Wikidata: Q3417293
Also known as
Rafaella Ottiano • Rafaelo Ottiano • Rafael Ottiano • Raphaella Ottiano
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.
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6.0
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942 Movie
6.4
Topper Returns
as Lillian
1941 Movie
Victory
as Madame Makanoff
1940 Movie
6.6
The Long Voyage Home
as Bella
1940 Movie
1.0
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Mme. Lupinsky
1940 Movie
5.5
Vigil in the Night
as Mrs. Henrietta Sullivan
1940 Movie
3.0
Paris Honeymoon
as Fluschotska
1939 Movie
5.2
Suez
as Maria De Teba
1938 Movie
6.5
Marie Antoinette
as Louise - Marie's Maid (uncredited)
1938 Movie
5.7
I'll Give a Million
as Barmaid
1938 Movie
6.0
The League of Frightened Men
as Dora Chapin
1937 Movie
6.5
Maytime
as Ellen
1937 Movie
6.3
Seventh Heaven
as Madame Frisson
1937 Movie
6.5
That Girl from Paris
as Nikki's Personal Maid (uncredited)
1936 Movie
6.0
Mad Holiday
as Ning
1936 Movie
5.7
Anthony Adverse
as Signora Bovino
1936 Movie
6.8
The Devil-Doll
as Malita
1936 Movie
4.9
Riffraff
as Matron (as Rafaelo Ottiano)
1936 Movie
6.5
We're Only Human
as Mrs. Anderson
1935 Movie
4.9
Remember Last Night?
as Mme. Bouclier
1935 Movie
6.4
Curly Top
as Mrs. Higgins
1935 Movie
5.3
One Frightened Night
as Elvira
1935 Movie
5.7
The Florentine Dagger
as Lili Salvatore
1935 Movie
3.0
The Lottery Lover
as Gaby's Maid
1935 Movie