Annie Rosar

She was normally pinned down to support roles and played very rarely leading roles. But she filled these rare opportunities with her whole soul like in the movie "Der veruntreute Himmel" (1958) - which can be seen as the height of her long career.

Her only son, by her first marriage, was killed in 1943 at the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

She was an actress, known for Die goldene Stadt (1942), Kleine Melodie aus Wien (1948) and Wir bitten zum Tanz (1941). She was married to Franz Rebiczek and Max Walser.

The talkies offered her those roles which made her famous. Already in 1933 she played for the first time with Hans Moser in the short movie "Kurzschluss". Both entertained the audience till to the 50's with their common entrances.

She made her film debut in 1919 with the movie "Der Mord an der Bajadere", a second silent movie followed nine years.

Dumpy Austrian character comedienne, often in rustic or proletarian roles as gossips, sharp-tongued cleaning women or henpecking wives or tyrannical mothers-in-law. On stage from 1910 at the Vienna Lustspieltheater, subsequently promoted by Max Reinhardt as a burgeoning comic talent. Long residencies at the Burgtheater (1917-23) and the Theater in der Josefstadt (1925-38). On screen, she was at her best when paired paired in lightweight comedies alongside the ever-popular Hans Moser.

In 1907 Rosar married a Swiss businessman and moved with him to Milan, Italy. After her divorce she remarried in 1930 but was divorced again.

Annie Rosar was born on May 17, 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

Annie Rosar was born in Vienna into a farming family based in Orth an der Donau, near Vienna. Her father Michael Rosar (1850-1927) worked as a conductor on the Vienna tram network.