Anna Demetrio

Anna Demetrio
Born	8 November 1890 Rome, Italy
Died	8 November 1959 (aged 69) San Mateo, California, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1933-1952 (film & TV)

Anna Demetrio (1890[1]–1959) was an Italian-born American film actress.[2] 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

• 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)

References

1. "Ancestry.com".
2. McLaughlin p.170

Bibliography

• McLaughlin, Robert. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

External links

• Anna Demetrio at IMDb