Name	Osa Massen (Aase Madsen)
Height	5' 5"  (165 cm)
Build	Slim
Eye Color	Brown - Dark
Hair Color	Black
Date of Birth	January 13, 1914
Birthplace	Copenhagen, Denmark
Star Sign	Capricorn
Died	January 2, 2006 (Aged 92)
Location of Death	Hollywood, CA
Cause of Death	Unspecified
Nationality	Denmark
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Actress
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Trivia and Quotes

Trivia

After only two films in Denmark she was given a screen test by 20th Century Fox and arrived in Hollywood in 1936.

After retiring from the screen, she served on the foreign film selection committee for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Because she was often confused with actresses Ilona Massey and Ona Munson, she changed her stage name to Stefanie Paull for one movie, but reverted back to Osa Massen for her next film.

Her expert multi-lingual skills had her sidelining as a dialect coach throughout much of her career. She worked with John Wayne on his Swedish accent and Thomas Mitchell on his Irish in The Long Voyage Home (1940).

Married three times, her last husband was a dentist (divorced).

Osa Massen (born Aase Madsen) was a newspaper photographer with an ambition to become a film editor. Prolific Danish film director Alice O`Fredericks gave her a role in her film Kidnapped in 1935.

Osa Massen`s name is often confused with that of the actress Ona Munson.

Played femme fatales and other ladies with secrets in war-era Hollywood.

She met second husband Dr. Harvey Cummins while volunteering for the Red Cross. He was involved in army medical work. They married in 1947 but he died only 18 months later.

Was once a newspaper photographer.

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