Bodil Rosing

Bodil Rosing

Born: December 25, 1877
Died: December 31, 1941
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bodil Rosing was born on December 27, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Sunrise (1927), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Why Be Good? (1929). She was previously married to Einer Jansen. She died on December 31, 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Movies for Bodil Rosing...

Marry the Boss's Daughter
Title: Marry the Boss's Daughter
Character: Mrs. Polgar
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
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No Greater Sin
Title: No Greater Sin
Character: Ma James
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: Leni
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
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Reaching for the Sun
Title: Reaching for the Sun
Character: Rita's Mother
Released: May 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Old Woman on Train
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Anna - Diana's Maid
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Frau Kohler
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Charlotte
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Ratty Old Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Passenger on Boat
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Mrs. Schmidt
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: Martha
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Nanny - Blair's Household Staff
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Village Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Mrs. Polska
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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The Plot Thickens
Title: The Plot Thickens
Character: Theresa the Cook
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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Rose Bowl
Title: Rose Bowl
Character: Mrs. Schultz
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Lisa
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Mrs. Keefer
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Ma
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Mama Jaynos
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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Roberta
Title: Roberta
Character: Fernande
Released: March 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.
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The Painted Veil
Title: The Painted Veil
Character: Frau Koerber
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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Crimson Romance
Title: Crimson Romance
Character: Mama von Bergen
Released: October 12, 1934
Type: Movie
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
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King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Title: King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Character: Sylvia
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.
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Such Women Are Dangerous
Title: Such Women Are Dangerous
Character: Helma
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
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Mandalay
Title: Mandalay
Character: Mrs. Kleinschmidt
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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Queen Christina
Title: Queen Christina
Character: Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
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Reunion in Vienna
Title: Reunion in Vienna
Character: Kathie - the Krug Family Maid
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
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Ex-Lady
Title: Ex-Lady
Character: Mrs. Bauer - Helen's Mother
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Character: Hilda Ericson - Maid
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Frau Necher (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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6 Hours to Live
Title: 6 Hours to Live
Character: Greta
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: Sophie
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Grand Hotel
Title: Grand Hotel
Character: Nurse Helping Old Lady Into Elevator (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Three Who Loved
Title: Three Who Loved
Character: 'Aunt Anna' Larson
Released: July 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
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Part Time Wife
Title: Part Time Wife
Character: Martha - the Cook
Released: November 30, 1930
Type: Movie
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams). For lack of anything else to do, Betty takes up golf, soon achieving professional status. Meanwhile, Jim's doctor advises him to start playing golf as an outlet for his frustrations. Sure enough, Jim and Betty are reteamed on the links, and all is well -- for everyone except Betty's erstwhile beau Tommy Milligan (Tom Clifford)
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Oh, for a Man!
Title: Oh, for a Man!
Character: Masseuse
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Mother of Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Hello Sister
Title: Hello Sister
Character: Martha Peddie
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: Grete Menzel
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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Broadway Babies
Title: Broadway Babies
Character: Durgan
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
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Eternal Love
Title: Eternal Love
Character: Housekeeper
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Andre's Mother
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds herself pregnant and is forced by her father to marry Poldi Moser, the mayor of the small Swiss town. Moser and Vroni are happy together, and two sons are born to them. André returns to the village periodically and finally asks Vroni to go away with him. She refuses, and he writes her an angry note. That evening, Vroni and André are involved in a toboggan accident; Vroni is killed outright, and André is fatally injured. Moser finds André's note and goes to him, demanding of the dying man to know which of the boys is in fact André's child. Thinking to protect his own son, André informs Moser that Moser's own son is his (André's) son. Moser swears vengeance on the child but relents when he realizes that he loves both boys equally.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Ma Kelly
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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King of the Rodeo
Title: King of the Rodeo
Character: Mother
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
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The Woman from Moscow
Title: The Woman from Moscow
Character: Nadia
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Mrs. Deane
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
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Out of the Ruins
Title: Out of the Ruins
Character: Mère Gilbert
Released: August 19, 1928
Type: Movie
He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he makes the supreme sacrifice.
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Ladies of the Mob
Title: Ladies of the Mob
Character: The mother
Released: June 30, 1928
Type: Movie
A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
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Wheel of Chance
Title: Wheel of Chance
Character: Sara Turkeltaub
Released: June 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Ma Sloval
Released: March 25, 1928
Type: Movie
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
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The Law of the Range
Title: The Law of the Range
Character: Jim and the Kid's Mother
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".
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Wild Geese
Title: Wild Geese
Character: Mrs. Sandbo
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Character: The Maid
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Blondes by Choice
Title: Blondes by Choice
Character: Caroline Bennett
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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The City
Title: The City
Character: Sarah
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play. A previous film on Fitch's play appeared in 1916. This version has been updated to contemporary 1926
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The Midnight Kiss
Title: The Midnight Kiss
Character: Swedish maid
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
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It Must Be Love
Title: It Must Be Love
Character: Mom Schmidt
Released: August 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Fernie Schmidt (Colleen Moore) lives with her parents in the rear of their delicatessen. The smells of the business - cheeses, sausages, garlic and pickled herrings - repulses Fernie, who dreams of leaving this environment and moving into a life that's more rarified. Her father, Pop Schmidt (Jean Hersholt) has plans for his daughter to marry Peter Halitovsky (Arthur Stone), a sausage salesman, but Fernie is repulsed by the idea. At a dance, Fernie meets Jack Dugan (Malcolm McGregor), who tells her that he is in stocks, a paper-counter, and she falls for him. Because of her rejection of her father's chosen candidate for matrimony, Pop puts Fernie out of the house.
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The Sporting Lover
Title: The Sporting Lover
Released: June 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
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The Volga Boatman
Title: The Volga Boatman
Character: Tartar Woman
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
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Lights of Old Broadway
Title: Lights of Old Broadway
Character: Widow Gorman
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.