Rosalind Russell
Born: 1907-06-04 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Died: 1976-11-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2017
- 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
- The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
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
1958
- Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood
- Auntie Mame as Mame Dennis
1956
- The Unguarded Moment ... (Story)
1955
- Picnic as Rosemary - The School Teacher
- The Girl Rush as Kim Halliday
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Never Wave at a WAC as Josephine "Jo" McBain
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- General Electric Theater as Cynthia
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
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as Janet Ames
- Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
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
- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self
- Take a Letter, Darling as A.M. MacGregor
- My Sister Eileen as Ruth Sherwood
1941
- The Feminine Touch as Julie Hathaway
- Design for Scandal as Judge Cornelia C. Porter
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- They Met in Bombay as Anya Von Duren
1940
- 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
- His Girl Friday as Hildy Johnson
1939
- The Women as Sylvia Fowler
- Fast and Loose as Garda Sloane
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
1938
- Man-Proof as Elizabeth Kent
- Four's a Crowd as Jean Christy
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Citadel as Christine Manson
1937
- Night Must Fall as Olivia Grayne
- Live, Love and Learn as Julie Stoddard
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
1936
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Craig's Wife as Harriet Craig
- Under Two Flags as Lady Venetia Cunningham
- Trouble for Two as Miss Vandeleur
- It Had to Happen as Beatrice Newnes
1935
- Reckless as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
- China Seas as Sybil Barclay
- Rendezvous as Joel Carter
- West Point of the Air as Dare Marshall
- The Casino Murder Case as Doris Reed
- The Night Is Young as Countess Zarika Rafay
1934
- The President Vanishes as Sally Voorman
- Evelyn Prentice as Mrs. Nancy Harrison
- Forsaking All Others as Eleanor