Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosalind Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA, 1907-06-04

Died: 1976-11-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Evelyn Prentice	Mrs. Nancy Harrison	67
2	1934	The President Vanishes	Sally Voorman	58
3	1934	Forsaking All Others	Eleanor	61
4	1935	The Night Is Young	Countess Zarika Rafay	57
5	1935	The Casino Murder Case	Doris	65
6	1935	West Point of the Air	Dare Marshall	60
7	1935	Reckless	Josephine 'Jo' Mercer	53
8	1935	China Seas	Sybil Barclay	63
9	1935	Rendezvous	Joel Carter	48
10	1936	It Had to Happen	Beatrice Newnes	55
11	1936	Under Two Flags	Lady Venetia Cunningham	60
12	1936	Trouble for Two	Miss Vandeleur	60
13	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
14	1936	Craig's Wife	Harriet Craig	63
15	1937	Night Must Fall	Olivia Grayne	70
16	1937	The Romance of Celluloid	Self	70
17	1937	Live, Love and Learn	Julie Stoddard	58
18	1938	Man-Proof	Elizabeth Kent	48
19	1938	Four's a Crowd	Jean Christy	51
20	1938	The Citadel	Christine Manson	63
21	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
22	1939	Fast and Loose	Garda Sloane	56
23	1939	From the Ends of the Earth	Self	0
24	1939	The Women	Sylvia Fowler	71
25	1940	His Girl Friday	Hildy Johnson	74
26	1940	Hollywood: Style Center of the World	Self	55
27	1940	Hired Wife	Kendal Browning	68
28	1940	No Time for Comedy	Linda Paige Esterbrook	54
29	1940	A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound	Self	67
30	1940	This Thing Called Love	Ann Winters	80
31	1941	They Met in Bombay	Anya Von Duren	73
32	1941	The Feminine Touch	Julie Hathaway	51
33	1941	Breakdowns of 1941	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
34	1941	Design for Scandal	Judge Cornelia C. Porter	52
35	1942	Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)	Self	0
36	1942	Take a Letter, Darling	A.M. MacGregor	64
37	1942	My Sister Eileen	Ruth Sherwood	67
38	1943	Flight for Freedom	Tonie Carter	54
39	1943	What a Woman	Carol Ainsley	56
40	1944	Breakdowns of 1944	Self	65
41	1945	Roughly Speaking	Louise Randall Pierson	68
42	1945	Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary	Self	0
43	1945	She Wouldn't Say Yes	Dr. Susan A. Lane	59
44	1946	Sister Kenny	Elizabeth Kenny	65
45	1947	The Guilt of Janet Ames	Janet Ames	57
46	1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Lavinia Mannon	63
47	1947	Blow-Ups of 1947	Self	63
48	1948	The Velvet Touch	Valerie Stanton	62
49	1949	Tell It to the Judge	Marsha Meredith	63
50	1950	A Woman of Distinction	Susan Manning Middlecott	62
51	1953	Never Wave at a WAC	Josephine "Jo" McBain	49
52	1955	The Girl Rush	Kim Halliday	37
53	1955	Picnic	Rosemary - The School Teacher	63
54	1958	Wonderful Town	Ruth Sherwood	66
55	1958	Auntie Mame	Mame Dennis	70
56	1961	A Majority of One	Bertha Jacoby	57
57	1962	Five Finger Exercise	Louise Harington	48
58	1962	Gypsy	Rose Hovick	64
59	1966	The Trouble with Angels	Mother Superior	68
60	1967	Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad	Madame Rosepettle	47
61	1967	Rosie!	Rosie Lord	0
62	1968	Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows	Mother Simplicia	62
63	1971	Mrs. Pollifax — Spy	Mrs. Pollifax	61
64	1972	The Crooked Hearts	Laurita Dorsey	78
65	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor	Self (archive footage)	60
66	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
67	1994	The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics	Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)	66
68	1994	That's Entertainment! III	(archive footage)	70
69	1995	The Flood of ‘55	Herself (archive footage)	0
70	2006	On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'	Self (archive footage)	0
71	2017	Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Cynthia	63
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
6	1953	Letter to Loretta	Self - Guest Host	65
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
8	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
9	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63

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