Bodil Frederikke Hammerich (1877-1941) was a stage actor in her native Denmark who made several appearances on Broadway in the early twenties.
Rosing had retired from the stage when she travelled to Hollywood with her daughter Tova, who had married actor Monte Blue. While there, she secured a small role in MGM’s Pretty Ladies (1925), beginning a career as a character actor that would run to around 80 appearances.
Rosing was frequently cast in matronly roles, often as maids, cooks and housekeepers. Most memorably, she was the maid in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).
Bodil Rosing appeared in two MGM musicals: as the innkeeper’s wife in A Lady’s Morals, and uncredited in an identical role in The Great Waltz.
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