Rosa Rosanova

Actress

Date of birth : 06/22/1869

Date of death : 05/29/1944

City of birth : Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Best remembered as Valentino's mother in "Blood and Sand," Rosanova began her career on Broadway and later played several immigrant women on the screen. In the film "Lucky Boy" (1929), George Jessell sang 'My Mother's Eyes' to her just like Al Jolson sang to Eugenie Besserer in "The Jazz Singer." With the advent of sound, her career came to an end.