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| location = [[Waterbury]], [[Connecticut]], [[USA]] | | location = [[Waterbury]], [[Connecticut]], [[USA]] | ||
| deathdate = {{death date and age |1976|11|28|1907|6|4}} | | deathdate = {{death date and age |1976|11|28|1907|6|4}} | ||
| deathplace = [[Beverly Hills]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], | | deathplace = [[Beverly Hills]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], | ||
| spouse = Frederick Brisson (1941-1976) | | spouse = Frederick Brisson (1941-1976) | ||
| − | | academyawards = '''Nominated: [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]''' <br> 1942 ''[[My Sister Eileen]]'' <br> 1946 ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' <br> 1947 ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' <br> 1958 ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' <br> '''[[The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]]''' (1972) | + | | academyawards = '''Nominated: [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]''' <br/> 1942 ''[[My Sister Eileen]]'' <br/> 1946 ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' <br/> 1947 ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' <br/> 1958 ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' <br/> '''[[The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]]''' (1972) |
| − | | goldenglobeawards = '''[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama|Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]]''' <br> 1947 ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' <br> 1948 ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' <br> | + | | goldenglobeawards = '''[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama|Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]]''' <br/> 1947 ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' <br/> 1948 ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' <br/> |
| − | '''[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy]]''' <br> 1959 ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' <br> 1962 ''[[A Majority of One]]'' <br> 1963 ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' | + | '''[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy]]''' <br/> 1959 ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' <br/> 1962 ''[[A Majority of One]]'' <br/> 1963 ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' |
| sagawards = '''[[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award|Life Achievement Award]]''' (1975) | | sagawards = '''[[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award|Life Achievement Award]]''' (1975) | ||
| − | | tonyawards = '''[[Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical|Best Leading Actress - Musical]]'''<br>1953 ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' | + | | tonyawards = '''[[Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical|Best Leading Actress - Musical]]'''<br/>1953 ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' |
}} | }} | ||
| − | '''Rosalind Russell''' ( | + | '''Rosalind Russell''' (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was a four-time [[Academy Award]] nominated and [[Tony Award]] winning [[United States of America|American]] film and stage [[actress]], perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the [[Howard Hawks]] screwball comedy ''[[His Girl Friday]]''. |
She is the actress (tied with [[Meryl Streep]]) with the most [[Golden Globe Awards]] (for films) wins, with five. It is notable that she won every Golden Globe that she was nominated for | She is the actress (tied with [[Meryl Streep]]) with the most [[Golden Globe Awards]] (for films) wins, with five. It is notable that she won every Golden Globe that she was nominated for | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
| − | Rosalind Russell was one of seven siblings born in [[Waterbury, Connecticut]] to Clara and James Edward Russell, | + | Rosalind Russell was one of seven siblings born in [[Waterbury, Connecticut]] to Clara and James Edward Russell, an [[Irish-American]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] family. She was not named after the character from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[As You Like It]]'', but rather after the ship on which her parents had travelled. She attended Catholic schools before attending the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] in [[New York City]]. |
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
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In the 1940s, she continued to make both comedies ''[[The Feminine Touch]]'' (1941); ''[[Take a Letter Darling]]'' (1942) and dramas ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946); ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1947); ''The Velvet Touch'' (1948). | In the 1940s, she continued to make both comedies ''[[The Feminine Touch]]'' (1941); ''[[Take a Letter Darling]]'' (1942) and dramas ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946); ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1947); ''The Velvet Touch'' (1948). | ||
| − | Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her [[Tony Award]]-winning performance in ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' in | + | Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her [[Tony Award]]-winning performance in ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' in 1953. The play was a musical version of her successful film of a decade earlier, ''[[My Sister Eileen]]''. Russell reprised her starring role in the musical version in 1958 in a television special. |
Probably her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit ''[[Auntie Mame]]'' (1956) and the subsequent [[Auntie Mame (film)|movie version]] (1958), in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her. When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!" | Probably her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit ''[[Auntie Mame]]'' (1956) and the subsequent [[Auntie Mame (film)|movie version]] (1958), in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her. When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!" | ||
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==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
| − | She married [[Denmark|Danish]]-American producer [[Frederick Brisson]] on | + | She married [[Denmark|Danish]]-American producer [[Frederick Brisson]] on October 25, 1941. Fred was often referred to in Hollywood as "The Lizard of Roz" due to his habit of getting choice Broadway play roles for the movie to be played by his wife Roz. They had one child in 1943, a son named Lance. Her father-in-law was the successful Danish actor [[Carl Brisson]]. |
| − | Russell died after a long battle with [[breast cancer]] in | + | Russell died after a long battle with [[breast cancer]] in 1976 at the age of 69, although initially her age was misreported because she had shaved a few years off her true age. She was survived by her husband and son. She is buried in [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City|Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California]]. |
Her autobiography, written with Chris Chase, entitled ''Life is a Banquet'' was published a year after her death. In the foreward (written by her husband), he states that Russell had a nervous breakdown sometime in the early 1940's. Details are scant, but it indicates that her health problems can be traced back to the 1940's. | Her autobiography, written with Chris Chase, entitled ''Life is a Banquet'' was published a year after her death. In the foreward (written by her husband), he states that Russell had a nervous breakdown sometime in the early 1940's. Details are scant, but it indicates that her health problems can be traced back to the 1940's. | ||
==Filmography== | ==Filmography== | ||
| − | *''Evelyn Prentice'' ( | + | *''Evelyn Prentice'' (1934) |
| − | *''The President Vanishes'' ( | + | *''The President Vanishes'' (1934) |
| − | *''Forsaking All Others'' ( | + | *''Forsaking All Others'' (1934) |
| − | *''The Night Is Young'' ( | + | *''The Night Is Young'' (1935) |
| − | *''The Casino Murder Case'' ( | + | *''The Casino Murder Case'' (1935) |
| − | *''West Point of the Air'' ( | + | *''West Point of the Air'' (1935) |
| − | *''Reckless'' ( | + | *''Reckless'' (1935) |
| − | *''[[China Seas (1935 film)|China Seas]]'' ( | + | *''[[China Seas (1935 film)|China Seas]]'' (1935) |
| − | *''Rendezvous'' ( | + | *''Rendezvous'' (1935) |
| − | *''[[It Had to Happen]]'' ( | + | *''[[It Had to Happen]]'' (1936) |
| − | *''[[Under Two Flags]]'' ( | + | *''[[Under Two Flags]]'' (1936) |
| − | *''Trouble for Two'' ( | + | *''Trouble for Two'' (1936) |
| − | *''Craig's Wife'' ( | + | *''Craig's Wife'' (1936) |
| − | *''The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention'' ( | + | *''The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention'' (1937) (short subject) |
| − | *''[[Night Must Fall]]'' ( | + | *''[[Night Must Fall]]'' (1937) |
| − | *''Live, Love and Learn'' ( | + | *''Live, Love and Learn'' (1937) |
| − | *''Man-Proof'' ( | + | *''Man-Proof'' (1938) |
| − | *''Four's a Crowd'' ( | + | *''Four's a Crowd'' (1938) |
| − | *''[[The Citadel (film)|The Citadel]]'' ( | + | *''[[The Citadel (film)|The Citadel]]'' (1938) |
| − | *''Fast and Loose'' ( | + | *''Fast and Loose'' (1939) |
| − | *''March of Time: The Movies Move On'' ( | + | *''March of Time: The Movies Move On'' (1939) (short subject) |
| − | *''[[The Women]]'' ( | + | *''[[The Women]]'' (1939) |
| − | *''[[His Girl Friday]]'' ( | + | *''[[His Girl Friday]]'' (1940) |
| − | *''No Time for Comedy'' ( | + | *''No Time for Comedy'' (1940) |
| − | *''Hired Wife'' ( | + | *''Hired Wife'' (1940) |
| − | *''This Thing Called Love'' ( | + | *''This Thing Called Love'' (1940) |
| − | *''You Can't Fool a Camera'' ( | + | *''You Can't Fool a Camera'' (1941) (short subject) |
| − | *''They Met in Bombay'' ( | + | *''They Met in Bombay'' (1941) |
| − | *''The Feminine Touch'' ( | + | *''The Feminine Touch'' (1941) |
| − | *''Design for Scandal'' ( | + | *''Design for Scandal'' (1941) |
| − | *''Take a Letter, Darling'' ( | + | *''Take a Letter, Darling'' (1942) |
| − | *''[[My Sister Eileen]]'' ( | + | *''[[My Sister Eileen]]'' (1942) |
| − | *''Flight for Freedom'' ( | + | *''Flight for Freedom'' (1943) |
| − | *''What a Woman!'' ( | + | *''What a Woman!'' (1943) |
| − | *''Screen Snapshots: 25th Anniversary'' ( | + | *''Screen Snapshots: 25th Anniversary'' (1945) (short subject) |
| − | *''Roughly Speaking'' ( | + | *''Roughly Speaking'' (1945) |
| − | *''She Wouldn't Say Yes'' ( | + | *''She Wouldn't Say Yes'' (1945) |
| − | *''[[Sister Kenny]]'' ( | + | *''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946) |
| − | *''The Guilt of Janet Ames'' ( | + | *''The Guilt of Janet Ames'' (1947) |
| − | *''Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers'' ( | + | *''Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers'' (1947) (short subject) |
| − | *''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' ( | + | *''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1947) |
| − | *''[[The Velvet Touch]]'' ( | + | *''[[The Velvet Touch]]'' (1948) |
| − | *''Tell It to the Judge'' ( | + | *''Tell It to the Judge'' (1949) |
| − | *''A Woman of Distinction'' ( | + | *''A Woman of Distinction'' (1950) |
| − | *''Never Wave at a WAC'' ( | + | *''Never Wave at a WAC'' (1952) {Cameo as himself is General [[Omar Bradley]]!} |
| − | *''The Girl Rush'' ( | + | *''The Girl Rush'' (1955) |
| − | *''[[Picnic (film)|Picnic]]'' ( | + | *''[[Picnic (film)|Picnic]]'' (1955) |
| − | *''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' ( | + | *''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' (1958) |
| − | *''[[A Majority of One]]'' ( | + | *''[[A Majority of One]]'' (1961) |
| − | *''Five Finger Exercise'' ( | + | *''Five Finger Exercise'' (1962) |
| − | *''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' ( | + | *''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' (1962) |
| − | *''[[The Trouble with Angels]]'' ( | + | *''[[The Trouble with Angels]]'' (1966) |
| − | *''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad'' ( | + | *''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad'' (1967) |
| − | *''Rosie!'' ( | + | *''Rosie!'' (1967) |
| − | *''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows'' ( | + | *''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows'' (1968) |
| − | *''[[Emily Pollifax|Mrs. Pollifax - Spy]]'' ( | + | *''[[Emily Pollifax|Mrs. Pollifax - Spy]]'' (1971) |
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|title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]] | |title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]] | ||
| − | | before=[[Ingrid Bergman]]<br>for ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' | + | | before=[[Ingrid Bergman]]<br/>for ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' |
| − | | years=1947<br>'''for ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' ''' | + | | years=1947<br/>'''for ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' ''' |
| − | | after=Rosalind Russell<br>for ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''}} | + | | after=Rosalind Russell<br/>for ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''}} |
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|title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]] | |title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama]] | ||
| − | | before=Rosalind Russell<br>for ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' | + | | before=Rosalind Russell<br/>for ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' |
| − | | years=1948<br>'''for ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' ''' | + | | years=1948<br/>'''for ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' ''' |
| − | | after=[[Jane Wyman]]<br>for ''[[Johnny Belinda]]''}} | + | | after=[[Jane Wyman]]<br/>for ''[[Johnny Belinda]]''}} |
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| title=[[Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical]] | | title=[[Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical]] | ||
| − | | years=1953<br>'''for ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' ''' | + | | years=1953<br/>'''for ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' ''' |
| − | | before=[[Gertrude Lawrence]]<br>for ''[[The King and I]]'' | + | | before=[[Gertrude Lawrence]]<br/>for ''[[The King and I]]'' |
| − | | after=[[Dolores Gray]]<br>for ''Carnival in Flanders'' | + | | after=[[Dolores Gray]]<br/>for ''Carnival in Flanders'' |
}} | }} | ||
{{succession box | {{succession box | ||
| title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] | | title=[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] | ||
| − | | before=[[Kay Kendall]]<br>for ''[[Les Girls]]'' | + | | before=[[Kay Kendall]]<br/>for ''[[Les Girls]]'' |
| − | | years=1959<br>'''for ''[[Auntie Mame]]'' ''' | + | | years=1959<br/>'''for ''[[Auntie Mame]]'' ''' |
| − | | after=[[Marilyn Monroe]]<br>for ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' | + | | after=[[Marilyn Monroe]]<br/>for ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' |
}} | }} | ||
{{succession box | {{succession box | ||
| title=Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | | title=Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | ||
| − | | before=[[Shirley MacLaine]]<br>for ''[[The Apartment]]'' | + | | before=[[Shirley MacLaine]]<br/>for ''[[The Apartment]]'' |
| − | | years=1962<br>'''for ''[[A Majority of One]]'' ''' <br>1963<br>'''for ''[[Gypsy]]'' ''' | + | | years=1962<br/>'''for ''[[A Majority of One]]'' ''' <br/>1963<br/>'''for ''[[Gypsy]]'' ''' |
| − | | after=[[Shirley MacLaine]]<br>for ''[[Irma la Douce]]'' | + | | after=[[Shirley MacLaine]]<br/>for ''[[Irma la Douce]]'' |
}} | }} | ||
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| − | {{succession box|title=[[Oscars]] [[List of Academy Awards ceremonies|host]]|before=[[Jerry Lewis]] <br> [[29th Academy Awards]]|after=[[Bob Hope]], | + | {{succession box|title=[[Oscars]] [[List of Academy Awards ceremonies|host]]|before=[[Jerry Lewis]] <br/> [[29th Academy Awards]]|after=[[Bob Hope]], Jerry Lewis, [[David Niven]], [[Laurence Olivier]], [[Tony Randall]], and [[Mort Sahl]] <br/> [[31st Academy Awards]]|years=[[30th Academy Awards]] (with Bob Hope, [[Jack Lemmon]], David Niven, and [[Jimmy Stewart|James Stewart]])}} |
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| − | == | + | ==References== |
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| − | + | *[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=russell&GSfn=rosalind&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=918& Rosalind Russell] Retrieved September 12, 2007. | |
| − | + | * [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2006/forever_mame.html Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell by Bernard F. Dick] Retrieved September 12, 2007. | |
| − | + | * [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=161256 Profile] @ Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 12, 2007. | |
| − | + | * [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/russell.htm Ancestry.com] Retrieved September 12, 2007. | |
| − | *[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=russell&GSfn=rosalind&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=918& Rosalind Russell] | ||
| − | * [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2006/forever_mame.html Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell by Bernard F. Dick] | ||
| − | * [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=161256 Profile] @ | ||
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| Rosalind Russell | |
| File:Rosalind Russell in The Women trailer 1.jpg in the trailer for The Women (1939) | |
| Date of birth: | June 4, 1907 |
| Birth location: | Waterbury, Connecticut, USA |
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| Date of death: | November 28 1976 (aged 69) |
| Death location: | Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, |
| Academy Awards: | Nominated: Best Actress 1942 My Sister Eileen 1946 Sister Kenny 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra 1958 Auntie Mame The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1972) |
| Spouse: | Frederick Brisson (1941-1976) |
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday.
She is the actress (tied with Meryl Streep) with the most Golden Globe Awards (for films) wins, with five. It is notable that she won every Golden Globe that she was nominated for
Early life
Rosalind Russell was one of seven siblings born in Waterbury, Connecticut to Clara and James Edward Russell, an Irish-American Catholic family. She was not named after the character from Shakespeare's As You Like It, but rather after the ship on which her parents had travelled. She attended Catholic schools before attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Career
She started her career as a fashion model and in many Broadway shows. In the early 1930s, she began to work for MGM, where she starred in many comedies, such as Forsaking All Others (1934) and Four's a Crowd (1938), as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife (1936) and The Citadel (1938). In 1939, she was cast as a catty gossip in the all-female comedy The Women, directed by George Cukor.
Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday
She proved her quick-witted talent for comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by Howard Hawks. She played a quick-witted ace reporter who was also the ex-wife of her former newspaper editor (played by Cary Grant).
In the 1940s, she continued to make both comedies The Feminine Touch (1941); Take a Letter Darling (1942) and dramas Sister Kenny (1946); Mourning Becomes Electra (1947); The Velvet Touch (1948).
Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her Tony Award-winning performance in Wonderful Town in 1953. The play was a musical version of her successful film of a decade earlier, My Sister Eileen. Russell reprised her starring role in the musical version in 1958 in a television special.
Probably her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit Auntie Mame (1956) and the subsequent movie version (1958), in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her. When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!"
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, she starred in a large number of movies, giving notable performances in Picnic (1956), Gypsy (1962) and The Trouble with Angels (1966).
Russell was the logical choice for reprising her role as "Auntie Mame" when its Broadway musical adaptation Mame was set for production in 1966. She claimed to have turned it down since she preferred to move on to different roles. In reality, she did not want to burden the public with her growing health problems, which included rheumatoid arthritis.
Rosalind Russell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1708 Vine Street.
Personal life
She married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson on October 25, 1941. Fred was often referred to in Hollywood as "The Lizard of Roz" due to his habit of getting choice Broadway play roles for the movie to be played by his wife Roz. They had one child in 1943, a son named Lance. Her father-in-law was the successful Danish actor Carl Brisson.
Russell died after a long battle with breast cancer in 1976 at the age of 69, although initially her age was misreported because she had shaved a few years off her true age. She was survived by her husband and son. She is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Her autobiography, written with Chris Chase, entitled Life is a Banquet was published a year after her death. In the foreward (written by her husband), he states that Russell had a nervous breakdown sometime in the early 1940's. Details are scant, but it indicates that her health problems can be traced back to the 1940's.
Filmography
- Evelyn Prentice (1934)
- The President Vanishes (1934)
- Forsaking All Others (1934)
- The Night Is Young (1935)
- The Casino Murder Case (1935)
- West Point of the Air (1935)
- Reckless (1935)
- China Seas (1935)
- Rendezvous (1935)
- It Had to Happen (1936)
- Under Two Flags (1936)
- Trouble for Two (1936)
- Craig's Wife (1936)
- The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937) (short subject)
- Night Must Fall (1937)
- Live, Love and Learn (1937)
- Man-Proof (1938)
- Four's a Crowd (1938)
- The Citadel (1938)
- Fast and Loose (1939)
- March of Time: The Movies Move On (1939) (short subject)
- The Women (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- No Time for Comedy (1940)
- Hired Wife (1940)
- This Thing Called Love (1940)
- You Can't Fool a Camera (1941) (short subject)
- They Met in Bombay (1941)
- The Feminine Touch (1941)
- Design for Scandal (1941)
- Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
- My Sister Eileen (1942)
- Flight for Freedom (1943)
- What a Woman! (1943)
- Screen Snapshots: 25th Anniversary (1945) (short subject)
- Roughly Speaking (1945)
- She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
- Sister Kenny (1946)
- The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
- Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers (1947) (short subject)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
- The Velvet Touch (1948)
- Tell It to the Judge (1949)
- A Woman of Distinction (1950)
- Never Wave at a WAC (1952) {Cameo as himself is General Omar Bradley!}
- The Girl Rush (1955)
- Picnic (1955)
- Auntie Mame (1958)
- A Majority of One (1961)
- Five Finger Exercise (1962)
- Gypsy (1962)
- The Trouble with Angels (1966)
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
- Rosie! (1967)
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
- Mrs. Pollifax - Spy (1971)
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Ingrid Bergman for The Bells of St. Mary's |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1947 for Sister Kenny |
Succeeded by: Rosalind Russell for Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Preceded by: Rosalind Russell for Sister Kenny |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1948 for Mourning Becomes Electra |
Succeeded by: Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda |
| Preceded by: Gertrude Lawrence for The King and I |
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical 1953 for Wonderful Town |
Succeeded by: Dolores Gray for Carnival in Flanders |
| Preceded by: Kay Kendall for Les Girls |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1959 for Auntie Mame |
Succeeded by: Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot |
| Preceded by: Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1962 for A Majority of One 1963 for Gypsy |
Succeeded by: Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce |
| Preceded by: Frank Sinatra |
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1972 |
Succeeded by: Lew Wasserman |
| Preceded by: Walter Pidgeon |
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1975 |
Succeeded by: Pearl Bailey |
| Preceded by: Jerry Lewis 29th Academy Awards |
Oscars host 30th Academy Awards (with Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, David Niven, and James Stewart) |
Succeeded by: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall, and Mort Sahl 31st Academy Awards |
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
External links
- Rosalind Russell Retrieved September 12, 2007.
- Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell by Bernard F. Dick Retrieved September 12, 2007.
- Profile @ Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 12, 2007.
- Ancestry.com Retrieved September 12, 2007.
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