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