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Rosa Stradner, The Keys of the Kingdom, 1944. I preferred the keys to the exit… Gregory Peck’s debut had not opened and head Fox Darryl Zanuck needed a name as the Reverend Mother Maria Veronica to bolster him… but never had a role strong enough to attract Ingrid Bergman. Nor Geraldine Fitzgerald, Rosalind Russell or the inevitable rank outsider, KTS. Co-writer Nunnally Johnson reported how writer-producer Joseph L Mankiewicz “practically got down on his knees” to his wife, Stradner: “This will save or doom my marriage.” Mankiewicz firmly denied it but she got the part. And the couple stayed wed until her1958 death. KT’s real name was… Gloria. Gloria Wood.
Birth year: 1919Death year: 1994Other name: Casting Calls: 1