1. Rosina Lawrence had a short but memorable career in the 1920s and 1930s in Hollywood before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment.
11 Facts About Rosina Lawrence
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Rosina Lawrence was one of the first women to swim Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
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Rosina Lawrence's dancing led to work in films when she became Sally Eilers' double for a tap dance in Dance Team.
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Rosina Lawrence made her film debut in the 1924 film A Lady of Quality.
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Rosina Lawrence received a contract from Twentieth Century-Fox in 1935, her first Fox effort being $10 Raise, an Edward Everett Horton comedy.
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Rosina Lawrence's singing voice, which had not been featured on film, came to the fore in Laurel and Hardy's Way Out West ; in addition to her own vocal, she provided the "high" soprano when Stan Laurel sang "Trail of the Lonesome Pine".
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Rosina Lawrence showed little interest in promoting her screen career, shying away from the prearranged publicity stunts or photo shoots common to studio press agents.
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Marchisio died in 1973, and in 1987, Rosina Lawrence married John McCabe, a biographer of her onetime co-stars Laurel and Hardy.
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Rosina Lawrence's nationality was British and it is unclear if she ever became a United States citizen.
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Rosina Lawrence died of cancer on June 23,1997, in New York City, aged 84.
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The Nepean Museum has recognized Rosina Lawrence by exhibiting publicity photographs and a variety of memorabilia related to her.