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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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Filmography (Movies)
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Character:
Release Date:26/02/1942
Topper Returns
Character:Lillian
Release Date:21/03/1941
Victory
Character:Madame Makanoff
Release Date:21/12/1940
The Long Voyage Home
Character:Bella
Release Date:16/11/1940
A Little Bit of Heaven
Character:Mme. Lupinsky
Release Date:10/10/1940
Vigil in the Night
Character:Mrs. Henrietta Sullivan
Release Date:05/02/1940
Paris Honeymoon
Character:Fluschotska
Release Date:27/01/1939
Suez
Character:Maria De Teba
Release Date:28/10/1938
Marie Antoinette
Character:Louise - Marie's Maid (uncredited)
Release Date:26/08/1938
I'll Give a Million
Character:Barmaid
Release Date:27/07/1938
The League of Frightened Men
Character:Dora Chapin
Release Date:25/05/1937
Maytime
Character:Ellen
Release Date:26/03/1937
Seventh Heaven
Character:Madame Frisson
Release Date:25/03/1937
That Girl from Paris
Character:Nikki's Personal Maid (uncredited)
Release Date:31/12/1936
Mad Holiday
Character:Ning
Release Date:13/11/1936
Anthony Adverse
Character:Signora Bovino
Release Date:26/08/1936
The Devil-Doll
Character:Malita
Release Date:10/07/1936
Riffraff
Character:Matron (as Rafaelo Ottiano)
Release Date:03/01/1936
We're Only Human
Character:Mrs. Anderson
Release Date:27/12/1935
Remember Last Night?
Character:Mme. Bouclier
Release Date:28/10/1935
Curly Top
Character:Mrs. Higgins
Release Date:26/07/1935
One Frightened Night
Character:Elvira
Release Date:01/05/1935
The Florentine Dagger
Character:Lili Salvatore
Release Date:30/03/1935
The Lottery Lover
Character:Gaby's Maid
Release Date:05/02/1935
Enchanted April
Character:Francesca
Release Date:01/02/1935
Great Expectations
Character:Mrs. Joe
Release Date:22/10/1934
A Lost Lady
Character:Rosa
Release Date:29/09/1934
The Last Gentleman
Character:Retta Barr, Judd's wife
Release Date:27/04/1934
Mandalay
Character:Madame Lacalles
Release Date:10/02/1934
Female
Character:Della, Alison's Maid (Uncredited)
Release Date:11/11/1933
Ann Vickers
Character:Mrs. Feldermans
Release Date:26/09/1933
Bondage
Character:Miss Trigge
Release Date:22/04/1933
She Done Him Wrong
Character:Russian Rita
Release Date:09/02/1933
The Washington Masquerade
Character:Mona Farrell
Release Date:09/07/1932
Night Court
Character:Evil Tongued Neighbor (uncredited)
Release Date:04/06/1932
As You Desire Me
Character:Lena
Release Date:28/05/1932
Grand Hotel
Character:Suzette
Release Date:25/05/1932
Married?
Character:Maid
Release Date:17/02/1926
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