Rosella Towne(1918-2014)
- Actress
Rosella Townsend is the second of three daughters of Frank and Viola
Townsend, and lived in her birth town of Youngstown, Ohio until the
late 1920s, when her family moved to Los Angeles. By the time she
reached her teens she had blossomed into a beautiful young women and
was asked by a friend to join in a dress show for a department store in
her hometown (a dress show that would happen to have Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Warner in its audience). Brought to Hollywood at age 19 she made her
film debut in 1937 in a string of uncredited film roles but gained
speaking parts in 1938. She starred alongside such names as
Bette Davis,
Ronald Reagan,
George Brent,
Lee Bowman, and
Margaret Lindsay. With the
coming of World War II she found herself getting less work in films and
left films after marrying screenwriter Harry Kronman in 1942 in Los
Angeles. They had two sons, Anthony and Michael.
