Rosalind Russell
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Catherine 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.
Known for
Credits
His Girl Friday (1940)
as Hildy Johnson
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Sylvia Fowler
Auntie Mame (1958)
as Mame Dennis
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
as Mother Superior
Picnic (1955)
as Rosemary - The School Teacher
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gypsy (1962)
as Rose Hovick
Wonderful Town (1958)
as Ruth Sherwood
This Thing Called Love (1940)
as Ann Winters
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
as Mrs. Nancy Harrison
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
They Met in Bombay (1941)
as Anya Von Duren
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
as Mother Simplicia
The Velvet Touch (1948)
as Valerie Stanton
China Seas (1935)
as Sybil Barclay
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
The Citadel (1938)
as Christine Manson
Sister Kenny (1946)
as Elizabeth Kenny
Four's a Crowd (1938)
as Jean Christy
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
The Night Is Young (1935)
as Countess Zarika Rafay
The Casino Murder Case (1935)
as Doris Reed
Tell It to the Judge (1949)
as Marsha Meredith
Blow-Ups of 1947 (1947)
as Self
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Lavinia Mannon
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
as Dr. Susan A. Lane
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
as Josephine McBain
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
as A.M. MacGregor
Live, Love and Learn (1937)
as Julie Stoddard
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
No Time for Comedy (1940)
as Linda Paige Esterbrook
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
A Majority of One (1961)
as Bertha Jacoby
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
as Madame Rosepettle
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self
Forsaking All Others (1934)
as Eleanor
The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
as Janet Ames
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self
A Woman of Distinction (1950)
as Susan Manning Middlecott
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trouble for Two (1936)
as Miss Vandeleur
The Crooked Hearts (1972)
as Laurita Dorsey
My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Ruth Sherwood
What a Woman (1943)
as Carol Ainsley
West Point of the Air (1935)
as Dare Marshall
It Had to Happen (1936)
as Beatrice Newnes
Reckless (1935)
as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
Breakdowns of 1944 (1944)
as Self
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Sally Voorman
Under Two Flags (1936)
as Lady Venetia Cunningham
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971)
as Mrs. Pollifax
Fast and Loose (1939)
as Garda Sloane
Flight for Freedom (1943)
as Tonie Carter
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Night Must Fall (1937)
as Olivia Grayne
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)
as Self
The Feminine Touch (1941)
as Julie Hathaway
Craig's Wife (1936)
as Harriet Craig
Man-Proof (1938)
as Elizabeth Kent
Rosie! (1967)
as Rosie Lord
Rendezvous (1935)
as Joel Carter
The Girl Rush (1955)
as Kim Halliday
Life is a Banquet (2009)
as Self (Archive Footage)
Hired Wife (1940)
as Kendal Browning
Roughly Speaking (1945)
as Louise Randall Pierson
Five Finger Exercise (1962)
as Louise Harington
The Flood of ‘55 (1995)
as Herself (archive footage)
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday' (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Design for Scandal (1941)
as Judge Cornelia C. Porter