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