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