Rosa Rey (born Isabel Mercedes Tárrago) was a Spanish actress and opera singer who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Biography
Rey was born in
Madrid
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, Spain, as Isabel Tárrago; she was a descendant of notable lawyer and poet Torcuato Tárrago y Mateos.
Rey worked as an opera singer before making her way onto the silver screen as a character actress. She was married to actor
Martin Garralaga
Martín Garralaga (10 November 1894 – 12 June 1981) was a Spanish actor who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was married to opera singer and actress Rosa Rey.
Biography
Garralaga first came to the United States wh ...
; they both worked at Fox in the 1930s.
She died on April 7, 1969, in Los Angeles County, California.
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Selected filmography
* ''La buenaventura'' (1934)
* ''
Grand Canary'' (1934)
* ''Tripping Through the Tropics'' (1934)
* ''Tres Amores'' (1934)
* ''
El cantante de Napoles'' (1935)
* ''Julieta Buys a Son'' (1935)
* ''Rosa de Francia'' (1935)
* ''El crimen de media noche'' (1936)
* ''El capitan Tormenta'' (1936)
* ''
Song of the Gringo
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'' (1936)
* ''
Fiesta'' (1941)
* ''
The Face of Marble'' (1946)
* ''
Gilda'' (1946)
* ''
Two Years Before the Mast
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'' (1946)
* ''
Secret Beyond the Door
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...'' (1947)
* ''
Secret of the Incas'' (1954)
* ''
The Rose Tattoo
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'' (1955)
* ''
The Bottom of the Bottle'' (1956)
* ''
Lawman'' (1959 episode "The Outsider") as Mrs. Lebeau
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Spanish film actresses
1892 births
1969 deaths
20th-century Spanish women opera singers
Spanish expatriates in the United States