Rosalind Russell
Acting
Born: June 4, 1907 · Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Died: November 28, 1976 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (56)
His Girl Friday
Hildy Johnson
Picnic
Rosemary - The School Teacher
Auntie Mame
Mame Dennis
The Trouble with Angels
Mother Superior
Evelyn Prentice
Mrs. Nancy Harrison
China Seas
Sybil Barclay
Forsaking All Others
Eleanor
The Women
Sylvia Fowler
Mourning Becomes Electra
Lavinia Mannon
Gypsy
Rose Hovick
Under Two Flags
Lady Venetia Cunningham
Four's a Crowd
Jean Christy
Tell It to the Judge
Marsha Meredith
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
They Met in Bombay
Anya Von Duren
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Live, Love and Learn
Julie Stoddard
Trouble for Two
Miss Vandeleur
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
The Citadel
Christine Manson
West Point of the Air
Dare Marshall
The Velvet Touch
Valerie Stanton
Take a Letter, Darling
A.M. MacGregor
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Simplicia
Sister Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Madame Rosepettle
A Woman of Distinction
Susan Manning Middlecott
Never Wave at a WAC
Josephine McBain
Night Must Fall
Olivia Grayne
Flight for Freedom
Tonie Carter
This Thing Called Love
Ann Winters
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Dr. Susan A. Lane
Fast and Loose
Garda Sloane
Rendezvous
Joel Carter
The Crooked Hearts
Laurita Dorsey
No Time for Comedy
Linda Paige Esterbrook
The Night Is Young
Countess Zarika Rafay
A Majority of One
Bertha Jacoby
The Casino Murder Case
Doris Reed
Man-Proof
Elizabeth Kent
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Mrs. Pollifax
The Feminine Touch
Julie Hathaway
Breakdowns of 1938
Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen
Ruth Sherwood
Design for Scandal
Judge Cornelia C. Porter
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Janet Ames
It Had to Happen
Beatrice Newnes
Roughly Speaking
Louise Randall Pierson
Five Finger Exercise
Louise Harington
The Girl Rush
Kim Halliday
Rosie!
Rosie Lord
Reckless
Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
Wonderful Town
Ruth Sherwood
Hired Wife
Kendal Browning
What a Woman
Carol Ainsley
The President Vanishes
Sally Voorman
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (24)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 6 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 2 eps
Startime
Self – Host · 1 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host · 2 eps
The Romance of Celluloid
Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blow-Ups of 1947
Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Life is a Banquet
Self (Archive Footage)
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
Self (archive footage)
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1944
Self
