Pretty, soulful-eyed Austrian actress Rose Stradner was a rising 30s ingénue on the Viennese stage and in a few German film romances and musicals when MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, who was in Europe searching for exotic talent, discovered Rose. Along with Greer Garson, Ilona Massey and Hedy Lamarr, she was brought to Hollywood and groomed as a foreign...
It is said that the famed birthday party scene ("Fasten your seat belts...it's going to be a bumpy night!") with a tipsy, vitriolic Margo Channing in husband Mankiewicz's classic film All About Eve (1950) was "inspired" by a very despondent and unhappy Rose.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Suspense
1953
TV Series
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica (as Rosa Stradner)
Blind Alley
1939
Doris Shelby
The Last Gangster
1937
Talya Krozac
Stadt Anatol
1936
Sonja Yvolandi
100 Days of Napoleon
1936
Maria Luisa von Österreich
Diener lassen bitten
1936
Mary - Potters Tochter
Der König lächelt - Paris lacht
1936
Madelaine
Der Mann mit der Pranke
1935
Lena Kröning
Nacht der Verwandlung
1935
Maria, seine Frau
Hundert Tage
1935
Maria Louise
So endete eine Liebe
1934
Kaiserin Maria Ludovica
Wedding at Lake Wolfgang
1933
Rosl
A Certain Mr. Gran
1933
Bianca, seine Frau
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blind Alley
1939
performer: "Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 in C sharp minor" 1846-47, "Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in E flat major" 1830-31 - uncredited
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The First Gangster and the Last Gangster
1937
Documentary short
Herself - Actress in 'The Last Gangster'
Known for movies
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) as Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica
$11 Million
