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Rose Stradner(1913-1958)

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Rose Stradner
Trailer for this film based on the novel
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Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet (1944)
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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 her. Along with Greer Garson, Ilona Massey and Hedy Lamarr, she was brought to Hollywood and groomed as a foreign import. Unfortunately, her personal life became a shambles and eventually overwhelmed her ability to perform.

She was born Rosa Luise Maria Stradner in Vienna in 1913 and educated at a convent. Her desire to become an actress came young. At 16 she studied at the Academy for Music and Art in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the age of 19, she auditioned for Max Reinhardt and handed a contract. She appeared for Austrian producer Max Reinhardt at the Volkstheater and Theater in der Josefstadt, often in the classics (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Moliere) but also handled modern plays (Dreiser, O'Neill). In Europe she also appeared in some German language films between 1933 and 1936.

Rose, her then-husband Karl Heinz Martin, a stage director, and her mother arrived in the United States in 1936. She and her Martin divorced soon after however. Making her U.S. debut as Edward G. Robinson's put-upon wife in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937), she showed promise and was signed by MGM. Her second film Blind Alley (1939), which was more Freudian in nature, starred Chester Morris as a psychologically-disturbed mobster who abducts psychiatrist Ralph Bellamy. Rose had less to do in this picture.

The budding star met well-known writer/producer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz at around this time and she placed her career on hold. The couple married in 1939 had two sons, Chris, born 1940, and Tom. Christopher Mankiewicz, born 1942, who went on to a successful career of his own as a screenwriter. Although Rose returned for a small but key role as a Mother Superior in her husband's film Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet (1944), her career was officially over after only three more films. In 1948 she was cast in the Edna Ferber play "Bravo!" but she had to be replaced during tryouts, which caused her severe mental strain.

On a positive note, her fluency in several languages helped her husband's screenplays but the marriage was rocky almost from the start. In addition to Mankiewcz' infamous affairs with such stars as Judy Garland and Linda Darnell, Rose did not take easily to being a "hausfrau," and turned to alcohol to deaden her unhappiness. She would be known for going into emotional tirades and was eventually admitted to sanitariums to treat her violent rates. Constantly threatening suicide, a lethal mix of bitterness and depression set in and on September 27, 1958 ended her pain with an overdose of sleeping pills in the Mt. Kisco, New York, home she shared with her husband. She was only 45.
BornJuly 31, 1913
DiedSeptember 27, 1958(45)
BornJuly 31, 1913
DiedSeptember 27, 1958(45)
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Rose Stradner and Paul Wegener in Der Mann mit der Pranke (1935)
Rose Stradner in Hochzeit am Wolfgangsee (1933)
Hans Söhnker and Rose Stradner in Diener lassen bitten (1936)
Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Stander, and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
Rose Stradner in Diener lassen bitten (1936)
Rose Stradner in So endete eine Liebe (1934)
Rose Stradner
Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
Rose Stradner in Blind Alley (1939)
James Stewart and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
James Stewart and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
Douglas Scott and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)

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Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
Viimeinen kansan vihollinen
6.7
  • Talya Krozac
  • 1937
Gregory Peck in Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet (1944)
Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet
7.2
  • Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica(as Rosa Stradner)
  • 1944
Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933)
Ein gewisser Herr Gran
6.3
  • Bianca, seine Frau
  • 1933
Paul Wegener in Der Mann mit der Pranke (1935)
Der Mann mit der Pranke
  • Lena Kröning
  • 1935

Credits

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Actress

  • Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Rod Serling in Suspense (1949)
    Suspense
    7.5
    TV Series
    • 1953
  • Gregory Peck in Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet (1944)
    Taivasten valtakunnan avaimet
    7.2
    • Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica (as Rosa Stradner)
    • 1944
  • Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Chester Morris, and Joan Perry in Blind Alley (1939)
    Blind Alley
    6.3
    • Doris Shelby
    • 1939
  • Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, and Rose Stradner in Viimeinen kansan vihollinen (1937)
    Viimeinen kansan vihollinen
    6.7
    • Talya Krozac
    • 1937
  • Peter Francke, Alfred Greven, Walter Gronostay, Karl Hellmer, Harry Liedtke, Rose Stradner, Walter Supper, Viktor Tourjansky, and Aribert Wäscher in Stadt Anatol (1936)
    Stadt Anatol
    6.4
    • Sonja Yvolandi
    • 1936
  • Diener lassen bitten (1936)
    Diener lassen bitten
    • Mary - Potters Tochter
    • 1936
  • Kuningas hymyilee (1936)
    Kuningas hymyilee
    • Madeleine - seine Frau Gastwirtin
    • 1936
  • Paul Wegener in Der Mann mit der Pranke (1935)
    Der Mann mit der Pranke
    • Lena Kröning
    • 1935
  • Gustav Fröhlich, Heinrich George, and Rose Stradner in Nacht der Verwandlung (1935)
    Nacht der Verwandlung
    • Maria, seine Frau
    • 1935
  • 100 päivää (1935)
    100 päivää
    7.5
    • Maria Louise
    • 1935
  • Campo di maggio (1935)
    Campo di maggio
    5.1
    • Maria Luisa von Österreich
    • 1935
  • Franz Grothe, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens, Karl Hartl, Franz Herterich, Edwin Jürgensen, Fritz Klotsch, Maria Koppenhöfer, Erna Morena, Rose Stradner, Gustav Waldau, Paula Wessely, and J. Fenneker in So endete eine Liebe (1934)
    So endete eine Liebe
    6.9
    • Kaiserin Maria Ludovica
    • 1934
  • Robert Stolz, Hans Behrendt, Hugo Schrader, Rose Stradner, and J. Fenneker in Hochzeit am Wolfgangsee (1933)
    Hochzeit am Wolfgangsee
    4.4
    • Rosl
    • 1933
  • Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933)
    Ein gewisser Herr Gran
    6.3
    • Bianca, seine Frau
    • 1933

Soundtrack

  • Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Chester Morris, and Joan Perry in Blind Alley (1939)
    Blind Alley
    6.3
    • performer: "Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 in C sharp minor" (1846-47), "Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in E flat major" (1830-31) (uncredited)
    • 1939

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  • Alternative name
    • Rosa Stradner
  • Born
    • July 31, 1913
    • Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
  • Died
    • September 27, 1958
    • Mount Kisco, New York, USA(suicide by overdose)
  • Spouses
      Joseph L. MankiewiczJuly 31, 1939 - September 27, 1958 (her death, 2 children)
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    Upon her marriage to director Joseph L. Mankiewicz he insisted that she retire from acting.

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