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Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Birthday: 1907-06-04 | Place of Birth: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame. She won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred). Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol, not being famous for her looks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosalind Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1968
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

as    Mother Simplicia

1966
The Trouble with Angels

as    Mother Superior

1962
Five Finger Exercise

as    Louise Harington

1962
Gypsy

as    Rose Hovick

1958
Auntie Mame

as    Mame Dennis

1958
Wonderful Town

as    Ruth Sherwood

1955
The Girl Rush

as    Kim Halliday

1955
Picnic

as    Rosemary - The School Teacher

1953
Never Wave at a WAC

as    Josephine "Jo" McBain

1949
Tell It to the Judge

as    Marsha Meredith

1948
The Velvet Touch

as    Valerie Stanton

1947
Mourning Becomes Electra

as    Lavinia Mannon

1945
Roughly Speaking

as    Louise Randall Pierson

1943
What a Woman

as    Carol Ainsley

1943
Flight for Freedom

as    Tonie Carter

1942
Take a Letter, Darling

as    A.M. MacGregor

1942
My Sister Eileen

as    Ruth Sherwood

1941
They Met in Bombay

as    Anya Von Duren

1941
Design for Scandal

as    Judge Cornelia C. Porter

1940
His Girl Friday

as    Hildy Johnson

1940
No Time for Comedy

as    Linda Paige Esterbrook

1939
Fast and Loose

as    Garda Sloane

1939
The Women

as    Sylvia Fowler

1938
The Citadel

as    Christine Manson

1938
Man-Proof

as    Elizabeth Kent

1938
Four's a Crowd

as    Jean Christy

1937
Night Must Fall

as    Olivia Grayne

1936
Under Two Flags

as    Lady Venetia Cunningham

1935
Reckless

as    Josephine 'Jo' Mercer