Rosina Lawrence
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Lawrence in 1935. | |
| Born |
December 30, 1912 Westboro, Ontario Canada |
| Died |
June 23, 1997 (aged 84) New York City, New York United States |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1933-1939 |
Rosina Lawrence (December 30, 1912 – June 23, 1997) was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario.
Career
Lawrence had a short-lived but memorable career in the 1930s before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment. She is best known for portraying Mary Roberts in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film Way Out West (she also provided the 'high' voice when Stan Laurel was singing Trail of the Lonesome Pine).
She is also recognizable as Miss Lawrence, the schoolteacher in the Our Gang comedies from 1936 to 1937 and as Alice Lowell in Charlie Chan's Secret in 1936.
In 1937 she played a starring role as Cecilia Moore in Pick A Star .
Her final performance was in the 1939 Italian comedy film In the Country Fell a Star in which she plays an American film star who causes great excitement when she appears in a small Italian town. Lawrence and Juvenal P. Marchisio married in 1939, and she left acting to become a housewife. Marchisio died in 1973, and in 1987, Lawrence married John McCabe, biographer of her onetime co-stars Laurel and Hardy.
Death
Rosina Lawrence died of cancer on June 23, 1997 at the age of 84.
Selected filmography
- Welcome Home (1935)
- Music Is Magic (1935)
- Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
- Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
- Mr. Cinderella (1936)
- General Spanky (1936)
- Way Out West (1937)
- Nobody's Baby (1937)
- Pick a Star (1937)
- In the Country Fell a Star (1939)
External links
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Rosina Lawrence at Find a Grave
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