Rosalind Ivan

Rosalind Ivan (27 November 1880 – 6 April 1959) was an English stage and film character actress. Ivan appeared in fourteen American films from 1944 to 1954.

Rosalind Ivan
Rosalind Ivan (1945).
Born
Rosalind Muriel Pringle

(1880-11-27)27 November 1880
London, England
Died6 April 1959(1959-04-06) (aged 78)
New York, New York
Other namesRosalind Johnson
OccupationActress
Years active1944-54

Rosalind Muriel Pringle was the daughter of Stamford and Annie Pringle, who married in 1876 and divorced in 1881. In 1883, her mother married Charles Johnson and her daughter took his surname. By age ten, Ivan was performing as a concert pianist in England, but financial problems with her family caused her to cease studying piano when she was sixteen.[1]

On the London stage, she had the role of "Retty" in Tess (1900). She joined Sir Henry Irving's distinguished company and in America appeared as Mme. Thalhouet in Madame Sans Gene[2] (1902). Ivan's first Broadway appearance was in The Master Builder (1907); her last was in The Corn Is Green (1940).[3] One of her triumphs on the stage was as the "vampire" in A Fool There Was (1913).[4]

Ivan had a memorable role as the nagging wife of a bank teller (Edward G. Robinson) in Fritz Lang's film Scarlet Street (1945). That role, along with a similar "nagging wife" role (of Charles Laughton) in Robert Siodmak's The Suspect (1944), caused some in Hollywood to dub her "Ivan the Terrible". She also appeared in 20th Century Fox's Biblical epic The Robe. She appeared with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Verdict (1946), as Mrs. Benson, Lorre's comical landlady. The actress gained most of her fame on the Broadway and London stages.

On April 6, 1959, Ivan was found dead in her hotel room in New York City. She was 78 years old. Police attributed her death to natural causes.[5]

Partial filmography

References
  1. Garrison, Maxine (10 September 1945). "Rosalind Ivan Tops As Nagging Wife". The Pittsburgh Press. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. p. 10. Retrieved 10 October 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. The Drama, p. 16, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Feb. 2, 1902.
  3. "Rosalind Ivan". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  4. "Rosalind Ivan in A Fool There Was", p 55, The Buffalo Times, March 16, 1913.
  5. "Rosalind Ivan, Actress, Dies". Democrat and Chronicle. New York, Rochester. Associated Press. 7 April 1959. p. 13. Retrieved 2 June 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

Further reading
  • Maltin, Leonard (2015) [First published 1969]. "Rosalind Ivan". The Real Stars : Profiles and Interviews of Hollywood's Unsung Featured Players (softcover) (Sixth / eBook ed.). Great Britain: CreateSpace Independent. pp. 158–165. ISBN 978-1-5116-4485-3.


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