Ossi Oswalda

Ossi Oswalda

actress, producer, writer

Ossi Oswalda was born on Feb 02, 1897 in Germany. Ossi Oswalda's big-screen debut came with The Ballet Girl directed by Ernst Lubitsch in 1918. Ossi Oswalda is known for The Doll directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Max Kronert stars as Baron von Chauterelle and Hermann Thimig as Lancelot - Neffe von Baron - the Baron's Nephew. The upcoming new movie Ossi Oswalda plays is The Star of Valencia which will be released on Apr 20, 1934.

Ossi Oswalda was born Oswalda Staglich on February 2, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She trained to be a ballerina and worked in chorus lines when she was a teenager. Director Ernst Lubitsch discovered her and cast her in his 1916 film The Shoe Palace. Over the next five years she appeared in many of Lubitsch's comedies including The Doll, The Oyster Princess, and I Don't Want To Be A Man. She usually played spoiled, child-like characters and even appeared in drag. Ossi became one of Europe's most bankable stars earning her the nickname "The German Mary Pickford". She and Ernst Lubitsch became very close friends but their relationship was never romantic. In 1919 she married Hungarian Baron Gustav Von Koczian. Ossi and her husband started their own production company but they only made five films together.

  • Birthday

    Feb 02, 1897
  • Place of Birth

    Niederschönhausen [now Berlin], Germany

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