Osa MassenFilmography

Outcasts of the City

Synopsis: In this drama set just after the end of WW II, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her German ex-lover returns and begins trying to exact his jealous revenge upon the Yankee. When the jealous shows up dead, the American is blamed. His Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Daughter

Synopsis: Claiming to be suffering from amnesia, an 18-year-old girl (Gigi Perreau) asks Perry (Raymond Burr) to find out who she is and help restore her memory. As it turns out, the girl has plenty to forget: Her name is Doris Bannister, and she is the daughter of Lisa Bannister (Osa Massen)--who herself Read More

Rocketship X-M

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery, Jr., Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Together with The Steel Helmet and Baron of Arizona, Rocketship X M is one of the best films ever turned out by the usually unimpressive Lippert Studios. Set sometime in the future, the film details the first manned space flight to the moon. John Emery plays the head of the expedition, with Lloyd Bridges Read More

Night Unto Night

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary de Camp, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars Ronald Reagan as John, a young scientist suffering from epilepsy (In 1951, Reagan would play another epileptic, baseball star Grover Cleveland Alexander, in The Winning Team). Viveca Lindfors Read More

Strange Journey

Synopsis: In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a band of castaway Nazis also inhabit the place. Trouble erupts when uranium is discovered. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadline at Dawn

Actors: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Clifford Odets. While on shore leave in New York, sailor Alex (Bill Williams) is Read More

The Gentleman Misbehaves

Synopsis: In this backstage musical comedy, a Broadway producer knows that his latest show will be a hit, but before he can stage it, he must come up with financial backing. First he tries to marry for money. When that fails he goes to a professional gambler and that is where the trouble really begins. Read More

Tokyo Rose

Actors: Lotus Long, Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Donald Douglas, Richard Loo

Synopsis: Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Read More

The Black Parachute

Actors: John Carradine, Osa Massen, Larry Parks, Jeanne Bates, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: Two years before attaining superstardom in The Jolson Story, Larry Parks essayed the leading role the Columbia wartime meller The Black Parachute. Parks is cast as American paratrooper Michael Lindley, who drops behind enemy lines under cover of night to rescue the deposed king (Jonathan Hale) of Read More

Cry of the Werewolf

Actors: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Nina Foch plays the title role in this rather dull horror melodrama from Columbia Pictures. Investigating his father's murder Bob Morris (Stephen Crane) and his Transylvanian girlfriend Elsa (Osa Massen) come to suspect the mysterious Celeste Latour (Foch), who calls herself a Gypsy princess. And Read More

The Master Race

Actors: George Coulouris, Osa Massen, Stanley Ridges, Lloyd Bridges, Carl Esmond, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that Hitler's legacy would not insinuate itself into the postwar era. Nazi bigwig Von Beck (George Coulouris) arrives in a small Belgian village on the eve of its liberation by Read More

Jack London

Actors: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Virginia Mayo, Harry Davenport, Frank Craven

Synopsis: This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget. Michael O'Shea is well cast as London, whose rugged adventures range from the high seas to the Klondike. London's insatiable wanderlust causes friction in his marriage to the lovely Read More

Background to Danger

Actors: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Eric Ambler's intriguing novel Uncommon Danger is brought down to a Republic serial level in Warner Bros.' Background to Danger. George Raft, who always seems miscast, plays an American undercover intelligence agent operating in Turkey. Sultry Osa Massen passes on some valuable secret papers to Raft Read More

Iceland

Actors: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart, Osa Massen

Synopsis: When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female population. He makes a casual pass at skating champ Sonja Henie, only to discover that she has taken his attentions as a marriage proposal! Unable to weasel out of his situation Read More

Lady from Louisiana

Actors: John Wayne, Ona Munson, Ray Middleton, Henry Stephenson, Helen Westley

Synopsis: John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures. Arriving from New England to look into the Louisiana lottery on behalf of uplifter Blanche Brunot (Helen Westley), attorney John Reynolds (Wayne) falls in love with sultry Read More

The Devil Pays Off

Synopsis: Republic Pictures borrowed William Wright from Paramount but then reduced him to third billing below ace villains J. Edward Bromberg and Osa Massen in this busy espionage melodrama, in which a former Navy lieutenant is assigned to investigate a shipping magnate whose vessels seem to mysteriously Read More

Accent on Love

Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a real estate executive tires of his privileged life working for his wealthy father-in-law and decides to leave his job and family to become a WPA ditch digger. While laboring, he meets a lovely immigrant, with whom he falls in love. He then begins working to help the Read More

A Woman's Face

Actors: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan Crawford's best vehicles. Told in flashback from the vantage point of a murder trial, the story concerns a female criminal whose face is disfigured by a hideous scar. The Read More

Honeymoon for Three

Actors: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charlie Ruggles, Osa Massen, Jane Wyman

Synopsis: Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for Three. Brent plays confirmed-bachelor novelist Kenneth Bixby, who wards off marriage-minded females by pretending to be married to his secretary Anne Rogers (Sheridan). Read More

You'll Never Get Rich

Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen

Synopsis: You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired with his favorite female dancing partner--not Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, but Rita Hayworth. Fred and Rita play a team of Broadway dancers whose partnership is abruptly Read More

Honeymoon in Bali

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: My Love for Yours is the alternate title for Paramount's Honeymoon in Bali. Madeline Carroll pulls a "Rosalind Russell" as a hard-shelled businesswoman with no time for romance. Fred MacMurray is determined to melt down her resistance, hoping to do so during a vacation to Nassau. Carroll almost Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Ib Schønberg, Arthur Jensen, Connie Meiling, Elga Olga Svendsen, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Of interest mainly as an early pre-Hollywood appearance by Osa Massen (A Woman's Face, 1941, Rocketship X-M, 1950), this slow-moving Danish comedy-melodrama starred that country's answer to Shirley Temple, five-year-old Connie Meiling, who is once again partnered with rotund comic (Ib Schønberg). Read More

Bag Københavns Kulisser

Actors: Ib Schønberg, Arne Weel, Osa Massen, Else Marie

Synopsis: Seemingly a lost film, this Danish farce marked the second screen appearance of Hollywood-bound Osa Massen, here still billed under her real name, Aase Madsen. She played Eva, a chorus girl, who, it is rumored, obtains the leading role in a new revue solely because of her connection with a rich Read More