Background
Bodil Hammerich was born as the daughter of a music dean and his wife, a well-known pianist.
Bodil Hammerich was born as the daughter of a music dean and his wife, a well-known pianist.
She studied acting at the Royal Danish Theatre in the 1890s.
Life and She worked afterwards as a stage actress in Denmark. They divorced in 1919. During the early 1920s, she made one or two stage appearances on Broadway while she raised four children in the meantime.
There she was suddenly chosen to play a film role in Pretty Ladies (1925).
Rosing was under studio contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and often played matronly roles like servants, housekeepers, cooks or mothers. Her most notable role was perhaps Janet Gaynor"s "Old Maid" in F.W. Murnau"s silent masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).
With the advent of sound film, she mostly portrayed foreigners and proved herself as an extremely versatile actress in a variety of ethnicities in about 85 films until her death. She appeared as the wife of her Danish compatriot in The Painted Veil with Greta Garbo and also played the German neighbour of Lionel Barrymore in You Can"t Take lieutenant With You by Frank Capra.
She died of a heart attack, aged 64.
Shortly before her death, Rosing stated about her acting: "My goal has always been to reach the heart of my audience." She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in the same plot alongside Monte Blue.