Rosina Galli

Rosina Galli

Born: August 10, 1906
Died: December 3, 1969
in Venice, Italy
From Wikipedia

Rosina Galli (August 10, 1906 – December 3, 1969) was an Italian character actress who worked in Hollywood between the mid-1930s and the mid-1940s, performing in about 40 films.

Galli appeared with Clark Gable in They Met in Bombay (1941) and played Christine's maid in The Phantom of the Opera (1943). She also portrayed the friendly wife of J. Carrol Naish in Star in the Night (1945), an Academy Award-winning short film by Don Siegel. Through her accent, Galli frequently played motherly characters of Italian or Spanish descent, mostly in small roles.

Afterwards she returned to Italy, where she played in three other movies until 1950. She also worked as the Italian dubbing voice for actresses like Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler, and Myrna Loy.

Rosina Galli died in 1969 in Madrid, aged 63.

Movies for Rosina Galli...

Fugitive Lady
Title: Fugitive Lady
Character: Teresa
Released: May 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
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Volcano
Title: Volcano
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
An exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a deep-sea diver (Rossano Brazzi) on an island volcano.
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Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Star in the Night
Title: Star in the Night
Character: Rosa Catapoli
Released: October 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Greek's Wife (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of the Opera
Character: Christine's Maid
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Katy Zaloris
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Underground Agent
Title: Underground Agent
Character: Maria Gonzales
Released: December 3, 1942
Type: Movie
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Mrs. Fabrini (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Mrs. Talucci
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Title: The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Character: Tanaa, Chief's Wife
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: Isabel Ojara
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Maria
Released: July 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
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They Met in Bombay
Title: They Met in Bombay
Character: Carmencita
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Mrs. Diestro
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Mama Posito
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Mama Brentoni
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Clinic Woman Who Lost Her Baby (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Escape to Paradise
Title: Escape to Paradise
Character: Brigida, the Dueña
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Mrs. Veroni
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Manuelita (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Title: Fisherman's Wharf
Character: Angelina
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Blockade
Title: Blockade
Character: Waitress
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: Italian Woman
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).