Background
Her father was Colonel Ernest Charles Stahl, a newspaperman who was drama and music critic for a newspaper called the Chicago InterOcean and her mother was French-Canadian. Rose Stahl was born in Montreal and spent her formative years in Chicago, Illinois, where her father worked.
Career
She later moved to Trenton, New Jersey when Colonel Stahl became editor of the Trenton Herald. She made her début in Philadelphia in 1887, toured with Daniel East. Bandmann in 1888, and appeared in New York in 1897.
In 1902-1903 she starred as Janice Meredith in a road touring version of the play of that name.
She first appeared in her rôle of Patricia O"Brien in 1904 in the sketch called The Chorus Girl, which she carried to London in 1906, and she reappeared in New York in the revised four-act play, The Chorus Lady, in which she made a sensation and which continued to be her vehicle until 1911. Afterward she played in Maggie Pepper (1911) with Beatrice Prentice playing a supporting rôle, Moonlight Mary (1916), et cetera
As with many turn of the century stage stars, Stahl showed no interest in the new medium of motion pictures when the fledgling studios came courting stage stars around 1912. Stahl was married twice.
Her second husband was William Bonelli, an actor whom she wed in October 1895.
This marriage lasted until Bonelli"s death. She bore no children in either marriage.