Osa Massen
Osa masses ( as Aase Madsen, born January 13, 1914 in Copenhagen, † January 2, 2006 in Santa Monica ) was a Danish actress.
Life and work
Osa masses made initially trained as a photo reporter and was then editor. A native of Sweden director Alice O'Fredericks she discovered the work before the camera. She debuted in 1935 in the Danish film Kidnapped. After another film in Denmark scouts from Hollywood took notice of them. In the 20th Century Fox finally got a contract. In Hollywood, they looked for the great success with Greta Garbo more actresses from Scandinavia. Besides Osa masses so came Signe Hasso, Sigrid Gurie, Gwili Andre and Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood. However, it was enough except for the Bergman only to careers in the B- movie. Her Hollywood debut in 1939 in the movie masses Honeymoon in Bali on the side of Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll. Other important films in Hollywood were George Cukor's The woman with the scar (A Woman's Face, 1941), Raoul Walsh's spy on the Orient Express ( Background to Danger, 1943) and Henry Levin's Cry of the Werewolf (1944). During the period of the Second World War, they often played the femme fatale and women with dark secrets. Since she was often confused with the actresses Ilona Massey and Ona Munson, she changed her stage name for her theater performances to Stefanie Paull.
Your penultimate movie in 1950 was the Kurt Neuman movie rocket moon starts ( Rocketship XM, 1950) alongside Lloyd Bridges, the last finally in 1958 Outcasts of the City. In the 1950s she appeared otherwise to only in television series such as Perry Mason, and in the early 1960s, retired from the film business. In the years around 1940, she was with the actor Allan Hersholt, son of Jean Hersholt, married.