Upon her marriage to director Joseph L. Mankiewicz he insisted that she retire from acting.
It is said that the famed birthday party scene ("Fasten your seat
belts...it's going to be a bumpy night!") with a tipsy, vitriolic Margo
Channing in husband Mankiewicz's classic film All About Eve (1950) was "inspired" by
a very despondent and unhappy Rose.
Rose Stradner's first husband was Austrian director Karl Heinz Martin.
She was engaged to Hollywood by Louis B. Mayer where she made her much promising US debut at Edward G. Robinson's side in "The Last Gangster" (1937).
In 1944 she made a brief comeback in a supporting role in "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), but the new breakthrough failed to come.
The actress Rose Stradner made her stage debut after the examination of the Academy for Music and Art in 1929 in Zurich.
At the beginning of the 1930s, became a stage star in Vienna, where future two-time Oscar-winner Luise Rainer, also later signed by MGM, was her understudy.. From 1933 she also appeared in German-language movies.
Full name Rose Luisa Maria Stradner. In the Germanic tradition, the "e" in her first name is not silent. It is pronounced "ROHZ-uh.".