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