Rosalind Russell
Born: 1907-06-04 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Died: 1976-11-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive)
- Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Life is a Banquet as Self (Archive Footage)
2006
- On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday' as Self (archive footage)
1995
- The Flood of ‘55 as Herself (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
1972
- The Crooked Hearts as Laurita Dorsey
1971
- Mrs. Pollifax — Spy as Mrs. Pollifax
1968
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows as Mother Simplicia
1967
- Rosie! as Rosie Lord
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad as Madame Rosepettle
1966
- The Trouble with Angels as Mother Superior
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Gypsy as Rose Hovick
- Five Finger Exercise as Louise Harington
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- A Majority of One as Bertha Jacoby
1959
- Startime as Self – Host
1958
- Auntie Mame as Mame Dennis
- Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood
1956
- The Unguarded Moment ... (Story)
1955
- Picnic as Rosemary - The School Teacher
- The Girl Rush as Kim Halliday
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- General Electric Theater as Cynthia
- Never Wave at a WAC as Josephine "Jo" McBain
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- A Woman of Distinction as Susan Manning Middlecott
1949
- Tell It to the Judge as Marsha Meredith
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Velvet Touch as Valerie Stanton
1947
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Lavinia Mannon
- Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as Janet Ames
1946
- Sister Kenny as Elizabeth Kenny
1945
- Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary as Self
- Roughly Speaking as Louise Randall Pierson
- She Wouldn't Say Yes as Dr. Susan A. Lane
1944
- Breakdowns of 1944 as Self
1943
- Flight for Freedom as Tonie Carter
- What a Woman as Carol Ainsley
1942
- My Sister Eileen as Ruth Sherwood
- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self
- Take a Letter, Darling as A.M. MacGregor
1941
- The Feminine Touch as Julie Hathaway
- They Met in Bombay as Anya Von Duren
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Design for Scandal as Judge Cornelia C. Porter
1940
- His Girl Friday as Hildy Johnson
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- No Time for Comedy as Linda Paige Esterbrook
- This Thing Called Love as Ann Winters
- Hired Wife as Kendal Browning
1939
- The Women as Sylvia Fowler
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Fast and Loose as Garda Sloane
1938
- The Citadel as Christine Manson
- Man-Proof as Elizabeth Kent
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Four's a Crowd as Jean Christy
1937
- Night Must Fall as Olivia Grayne
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
- Live, Love and Learn as Julie Stoddard
1936
- Craig's Wife as Harriet Craig
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Under Two Flags as Lady Venetia Cunningham
- Trouble for Two as Miss Vandeleur
- It Had to Happen as Beatrice Newnes
1935
- China Seas as Sybil Barclay
- Reckless as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
- The Night Is Young as Countess Zarika Rafay
- The Casino Murder Case as Doris Reed
- Rendezvous as Joel Carter
- West Point of the Air as Dare Marshall
1934
- Evelyn Prentice as Mrs. Nancy Harrison
- Forsaking All Others as Eleanor
- The President Vanishes as Sally Voorman