Anna Demetrio
{{Short description|Italian-born American film actress}}
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| name = Anna Demetrio
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| birth_date = 8 November 1890
| death_date = 8 November 1959 (aged 69)
| death_place = San Mateo, California, United States
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1933-1952 (film & TV)
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Anna Demetrio (1890{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Anna_Demetrio&birth=1890&birth_x=1-0-0&location=2&name_x=1_1&priority=usa|title=Ancestry.com}}–1959) was an Italian-born American film actress.McLaughlin p.170 Speaking English with a heavy accent, she often played stock foreign characters in a series of supporting roles. In 1950 she starred in the sitcom Mama Rosa in which she played the title character.
Selected filmography
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- Too Much Harmony (1933)
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
- In Old Mexico (1938)
- Escape to Paradise (1939)
- Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
- Miss V from Moscow (1942)
- Submarine Base (1943)
- Dragon Seed (1944)
- Call of the South Seas (1944)
- Appointment with Murder (1948)
- September Affair (1950)
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References
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Bibliography
- McLaughlin, Robert. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0218409}}
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Category:Italian emigrants to the United States
Category:Italian film actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
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