Rosina Lawrence (December 30, 1912 – June 23, 1997) was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario. Rosina Lawrence had a short-lived but memorable career in the 1930s before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment. She is best known for portraying Mary Roberts in Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 film Way Out West. She began her acting career in 1924 playing bit parts in silent films. In 1936 she became the successor to schoolteacher Miss Crabtree in the Our Gang comedies, playing the role of either Miss Lawrence or Miss Jones in classics such as “Arbor Day”, “Bored Of Education”(the only Our Gang comedy to win an Academy Award), “Two Too Young”, “Spooky Hooky”, “Reunion In Rhythm”, “Hearts Are Thumps” and “Three Smart Boys”. She also appeared in “General Spanky”, which was the only full length Our Gang feature. In 1937 she played a starring role as Cecilia Moore in Pick A Star . Her final performance was in the 1939 Italian comedy film In the Country Fell a Star in which she plays an American film star who causes great excitement when she appears in a small Italian town. Lawrence and Juvenal P. Marchisio married in 1939, and she left acting to become a housewife. Marchisio died in 1973, and in 1987, Lawrence married John McCabe, biographer of her onetime co-stars Laurel and Hardy. Rosina Lawrence died of cancer on June 23, 1997 at the age of 84.