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Rosalind Russell
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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, excep…
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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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Rosalind Russell's Filmography
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The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
Life is a Banquet
as Self (Archive Footage)
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The Flood of ‘55
as Herself (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
The Crooked Hearts
as Laurita Dorsey
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
as Mrs. Pollifax
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
as Mother Simplicia
Rosie!
as Rosie Lord
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
as Madame Rosepettle
The Trouble with Angels
as Mother Superior
Gypsy
as Rose Hovick
Five Finger Exercise
as Louise Harington
A Majority of One
as Bertha Jacoby
Auntie Mame
as Mame Dennis
Wonderful Town
as Ruth Sherwood
Picnic
as Rosemary - The School Teacher
The Girl Rush
as Kim Halliday
Never Wave at a WAC
as Josephine McBain
A Woman of Distinction
as Susan Manning Middlecott
Tell It to the Judge
as Marsha Meredith
The Velvet Touch
as Valerie Stanton
Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Lavinia Mannon
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Janet Ames
Sister Kenny
as Elizabeth Kenny
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Dr. Susan A. Lane
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self
Roughly Speaking
as Louise Randall Pierson
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
What a Woman
as Carol Ainsley
Flight for Freedom
as Tonie Carter
My Sister Eileen
as Ruth Sherwood
Take a Letter, Darling
as A.M. MacGregor
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self
Design for Scandal
as Judge Cornelia C. Porter
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Feminine Touch
as Julie Hathaway
They Met in Bombay
as Anya Von Duren
This Thing Called Love
as Ann Winters
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
No Time for Comedy
as Linda Paige Esterbrook
Hired Wife
as Kendal Browning
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
His Girl Friday
as Hildy Johnson
The Women
as Sylvia Fowler
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
Fast and Loose
as Garda Sloane
Breakdowns of 1938
as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Citadel
as Christine Manson
Four's a Crowd
as Jean Christy
Man-Proof
as Elizabeth Kent
Live, Love and Learn
as Julie Stoddard
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
Night Must Fall
as Olivia Grayne
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
Trouble for Two
as Miss Vandeleur
Under Two Flags
as Lady Venetia Cunningham
It Had to Happen
as Beatrice Newnes
Rendezvous
as Joel Carter
China Seas
as Sybil Barclay
Reckless
as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
West Point of the Air
as Dare Marshall
The Casino Murder Case
as Doris Reed
The Night Is Young
as Countess Zarika Rafay
Forsaking All Others
as Eleanor
The President Vanishes
as Sally Voorman
Evelyn Prentice
as Mrs. Nancy Harrison