Rosetta LeNoire
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 8, 1911, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- March 17, 2002
- Movies
- 19
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Rosetta LeNoire (August 8, 1911 - March 17, 2002) was an American stage, screen, and television actress, as well as a Broadway producer and casting agent.
As a young girl LeNoire suffered from rickets, which her godfather, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, helped her overcome by teaching her to dance. LeNoire made her acting debut in a 1939 production of The Hot Mikado, starring Robinson, in which she played "Little Maid From School" Peep-Bo. She also appeared onstage, mostly as a singer and dancer, in I Had a Ball, Bassa Moona, Marching with Jimmy, Janie, Decision, Three's a Family, Destry Rides Again, and the Off Broadway Double Entry (two one-act musicals showcasing Lenoire: "The Bible Salesman," with a pre-SNL Garrett Morris, and "The Oldest Trick in the World" with Jane Connell).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2000 | Curtain Call | |
| 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Self |
| 1987 | The Father Clements Story | |
| 1986 | Whatever it Takes | Millie |
| 1985 | Brewster's Millions | Judge R. Woods |
| 1984 | You Can't Take it With You | Rheba |
| 1984 | Lily in Love | Rosanna |
| 1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Mama |
| 1984 | Moscow on the Hudson | The Judge (as Rosetta Le Noire) |
| 1983 | Daniel | Prison Matron |
| 1980 | Big Blonde | Nettie |
| 1978 | Mandy's Grandmother | Librarian |
| 1977 | The Royal Family | Della |
| 1977 | Thank You, M'am | Mrs. Luetta Bates Washington Jones |
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Odessa, Willy's Nurse |
| 1972 | Fritz the Cat | Bertha / Additional Female Crows (voice) |
| 1968 | The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Woman |
| 1958 | Anna Lucasta | Stella |
| 1957 | The Defender (Studio One) | Mary Ellen Bailey |
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