Rosina Lawrence was a Canadian-born American

United States

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 actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

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Career

Lawrence had a short-lived but memorable career in the 1930s before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment. She is best known for portraying Mary Roberts in Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

's 1937 film

Film

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 Way Out West

Way Out West (1937 film)

Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Plot:...

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She is also recognizable as Miss Lawrence (or Miss Jones), the schoolteacher in the Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

comedies from 1936 to 1937 and as Alice Lowell in Charlie Chan's Secret

Charlie Chan's Secret

Charlie Chan's Secret is the tenth Fox-produced film in the Charlie Chan series with Warner Oland as the detective.- Plot :Alan Colby, heir to a vast fortune, reappears after a seven year absence, only to be murdered before he can claim his inheritance. The Lowells have been living off the Colby...

in 1936.

Lawrence and Juvenal P. Marchisio married in 1939, and she left acting to become a housewife

Housewife

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. Marchisio died in 1973, and in 1987, Lawrence married John McCabe

John McCabe (writer)

John McCabe , born John Charles McCabe III, was a Shakespearean scholar and author, whose first book was the authorized biography of Laurel and Hardy....

, biographer of her onetime co-stars Laurel and Hardy.

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