Rosalind Russell
Born June 04, 1907 (Age: 118)
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Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
2017
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 109
Life is a Banquet
2009
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as Self (Archive Footage)
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Age: 102
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
2006
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 98
That's Entertainment! III
1994
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 87
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 65
Gypsy
1962
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as Rose Hovick
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Age: 55
Five Finger Exercise
1962
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as Louise Harington
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Age: 54
A Majority of One
1961
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as Bertha Jacoby
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Age: 54
Auntie Mame
1958
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as Mame Dennis
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Age: 51
Wonderful Town
1958
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as Ruth Sherwood
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Age: 51
Picnic
1955
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as Rosemary - The School Teacher
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Age: 48
The Girl Rush
1955
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as Kim Halliday
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Age: 48
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
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as Josephine "Jo" McBain
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Age: 45
A Woman of Distinction
1950
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as Susan Manning Middlecott
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Age: 42
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
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as Dr. Susan A. Lane
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Age: 38
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
1945
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as Self
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Age: 38
Roughly Speaking
1945
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as Louise Randall Pierson
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Age: 37
My Sister Eileen
1942
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as Ruth Sherwood
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Age: 35
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
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as A.M. MacGregor
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Age: 34
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
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as Self
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Age: 34
Design for Scandal
1941
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as Judge Cornelia C. Porter
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Age: 34
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 34
The Feminine Touch
1941
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as Julie Hathaway
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Age: 34
They Met in Bombay
1941
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as Anya Von Duren
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Age: 34