Osa Massen
Danish-born actress Osa Massen, a femme fatale in Hollywood films of the 1940s, died Jan. 2 at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, Calif., while recovering from surgery. According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Massen was 91. (She was born in Copenhagen on Jan. 13, 1914.)
Reports claim that Massen was trained as a newspaper photographer (this info, found in the Los Angeles Times obit, may have come from the often unreliable IMDb), but she decided to become a film editor after acting (as Aase Madsen) in the 1935 Danish movie Kidnapped for directors Alice O’Fredericks and Lau Lauritzen.
Following a second Danish film that same year, Arne Weel’s comedy Bag Københavns kulisser, Massen accepted an offer to go [...]
by Andre Soares | February 17, 2006
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