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