Rafaela Ottiano

After establishing herself on the Italian stage, actress Rafaela Ottiano came to American films in 1924. During the talkie era, Ottiano specialized in sinister, spiteful characterizations. As aging trollop Russian Rita in She Done Him Wrong (1933), she meets her well-deserved end at the hands of Mae West, while in The Devil Doll (1935), she makes clear her plans to exploit her scientist husband's "miniaturization" process by hissing malevolently, "We'll make the whole world small!!!!" A somewhat more benign Rafaela Ottiano can be seen in Grand Hotel (1932), in which she plays the overprotective maidservant of ballerina Greta Garbo, and Curly Top (1935), in which her sour severity melts when exposed to the relentless cheeriness of Shirley Temple.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
20%	Devil Doll	Malita	—	1964
No Score Yet	I Married an Angel	Madelon	—	1942
89%	Topper Returns	Lillian	—	1941
100%	The Long Voyage Home	Tropical Woman	—	1940
No Score Yet	Vigil in the Night	Actor	—	1940
No Score Yet	A Little Bit of Heaven	Mme. Lupinsky	—	1940
No Score Yet	Marie Antoinette	Louise	—	1938
No Score Yet	Suez	Maria De Teba	—	1938
No Score Yet	Seventh Heaven	Mme. Frisson	—	1937
100%	Maytime	Ellen	—	1937
No Score Yet	That Girl from Paris	Marie	—	1936
20%	Anthony Adverse	Signora Buvino	—	1936
No Score Yet	Riffraff	Head Matron	—	1936
81%	The Devil-Doll	Malita	—	1936
No Score Yet	Mad Holiday	Ning	—	1936
No Score Yet	We're Only Human	Mrs. Anderson	—	1935
No Score Yet	Crime and Punishment	Landlady	—	1935
No Score Yet	Remember Last Night?	Mme. Bouclier	—	1935
No Score Yet	One Frightened Night	Elvira	—	1935
No Score Yet	Enchanted April	Francesca	—	1935
No Score Yet	Curly Top	Mrs. Higgins	—	1935
No Score Yet	A Lost Lady	Rosa	—	1934
No Score Yet	Mandalay	The Countess	—	1934
No Score Yet	All Men Are Enemies	Filomena	—	1934
No Score Yet	Great Expectations	Mrs. Joe	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Last Gentleman	Retta	—	1934
80%	Female	Della	—	1933
No Score Yet	Ann Vickers	Feldermus	—	1933
90%	She Done Him Wrong	Russian Rita	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Washington Masquerade	Mona	—	1932
86%	Grand Hotel	Suzette	—	1932
83%	As You Desire Me	Lena	—	1932

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