Rosalind Russell

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1907-06-04

Deathday 1976-11-28 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Rosalind Russell

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.

Known For

Actor

2017
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

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)

1994
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)

1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1973
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
1967
Rosie!

as Rosie Lord

1966
The Trouble with Angels

as Mother Superior

1962
Gypsy

as Rose Hovick

1962
Five Finger Exercise

as Louise Harington

1961
A Majority of One

as Bertha Jacoby

1958
Auntie Mame

as Mame Dennis

1958
Wonderful Town

as Ruth Sherwood

1955
Picnic

as Rosemary - The School Teacher

1955
The Girl Rush

as Kim Halliday

1953
Never Wave at a WAC

as Josephine "Jo" McBain

1953
Letter to Loretta

as Self - Guest Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1950
A Woman of Distinction

as Susan Manning Middlecott

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
Tell It to the Judge

as Marsha Meredith

1948
The Velvet Touch

as Valerie Stanton

1947
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra

as Lavinia Mannon

1947
1946
Sister Kenny

as Elizabeth Kenny

1945
She Wouldn't Say Yes

as Dr. Susan A. Lane

1945
Roughly Speaking

as Louise Randall Pierson

1944
1943
What a Woman

as Carol Ainsley

1943
Flight for Freedom

as Tonie Carter

1942
My Sister Eileen

as Ruth Sherwood

1942
Take a Letter, Darling

as A.M. MacGregor

1941
Design for Scandal

as Judge Cornelia C. Porter

1941
Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941
The Feminine Touch

as Julie Hathaway

1941
They Met in Bombay

as Anya Von Duren

1940
This Thing Called Love

as Ann Winters

1940
No Time for Comedy

as Linda Paige Esterbrook

1940
Hired Wife

as Kendal Browning

1940
His Girl Friday

as Hildy Johnson

1939
The Women

as Sylvia Fowler

1939
Fast and Loose

as Garda Sloane

1938
Breakdowns of 1938

as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)

1938
The Citadel

as Christine Manson

1938
Four's a Crowd

as Jean Christy

1938
Man-Proof

as Elizabeth Kent

1937
Live, Love and Learn

as Julie Stoddard

1937
Night Must Fall

as Olivia Grayne

1936
Craig's Wife

as Harriet Craig

1936
Trouble for Two

as Miss Vandeleur

1936
Under Two Flags

as Lady Venetia Cunningham

1936
It Had to Happen

as Beatrice Newnes

1935
Rendezvous

as Joel Carter

1935
China Seas

as Sybil Barclay

1935
Reckless

as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer

1935
West Point of the Air

as Dare Marshall

1935
The Night Is Young

as Countess Zarika Rafay

1934
1934
The President Vanishes

as Sally Voorman

1934
Evelyn Prentice

as Mrs. Nancy Harrison

Writer

1971
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

as Screenplay