Rosalind Russell
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Startime
Self – Host
1959
Film
Gypsy
Rose Hovick
1962
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Film
Auntie Mame
Mame Dennis
1958
Film
His Girl Friday
Hildy Johnson
1940
Series
Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Cynthia
1953
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Film
The Women
Sylvia Fowler
1939
Film
The Trouble with Angels
Mother Superior
1966
Film
Picnic
Rosemary - The School Teacher
1955
Film
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
1994
Film
China Seas
Sybil Barclay
1935
Film
The Citadel
Christine Manson
1938
Film
Sister Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny
1946
Film
The Velvet Touch
Valerie Stanton
1948
Film
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
2017
Film
A Majority of One
Bertha Jacoby
1961
Film
No Time for Comedy
Linda Paige Esterbrook
1940
Film
Evelyn Prentice
Mrs. Nancy Harrison
1934
Film
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
1987
Film
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
Film
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
1940
Film
A Woman of Distinction
Susan Manning Middlecott
1950
Film
Rendezvous
Joel Carter
1935
Film
Forsaking All Others
Eleanor
1934
Film
Under Two Flags
Lady Venetia Cunningham
1936
Film
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Film
Night Must Fall
Olivia Grayne
1937
Film
Live, Love and Learn
Julie Stoddard
1937
Film
Trouble for Two
Miss Vandeleur
1936
Film
Breakdowns of 1938
Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Design for Scandal
Judge Cornelia C. Porter
1941
Film
Flight for Freedom
Tonie Carter
1943
Film
The Girl Rush
Kim Halliday
1955
Film
They Met in Bombay
Anya Von Duren
1941
Film
The Romance of Celluloid
Self
1937
Film
Never Wave at a WAC
Josephine McBain
1953
Film
Roughly Speaking
Louise Randall Pierson
1945
Film
West Point of the Air
Dare Marshall
1935
Film
My Sister Eileen
Ruth Sherwood
1942
Film
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
1939
Film
The President Vanishes
Sally Voorman
1934
Film
This Thing Called Love
Ann Winters
1940
Film
Breakdowns of 1944
Self
1944
Film
Mourning Becomes Electra
Lavinia Mannon
1947
Film
Tell It to the Judge
Marsha Meredith
1949
Film
Four's a Crowd
Jean Christy
1938
Film
Hired Wife
Kendal Browning
1940
Film
The Feminine Touch
Julie Hathaway
1941
Film
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Simplicia
1968
Film
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
1973
Film
Reckless
Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
1935
Film
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
1936
Film
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
1940
Film
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Janet Ames
1947
Film
Fast and Loose
Garda Sloane
1939
Film
Blow-Ups of 1947
Self
1947
Film
Rosie!
Rosie Lord
1967
Film
Man-Proof
Elizabeth Kent
1938
Film
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Mrs. Pollifax
1971
Film
Life is a Banquet
Self (Archive Footage)
2009
Film
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Madame Rosepettle
1967
Film
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Dr. Susan A. Lane
1945
Film
Wonderful Town
Ruth Sherwood
1958
Film
The Crooked Hearts
Laurita Dorsey
1972
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
1936
Film
The Casino Murder Case
Doris Reed
1935
Film
The Night Is Young
Countess Zarika Rafay
1935
Film
What a Woman
Carol Ainsley
1943
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self
1942
Film
Take a Letter, Darling
A.M. MacGregor
1942
Film
Five Finger Exercise
Louise Harington
1962
Film
It Had to Happen
Beatrice Newnes
1936
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self
1945
The Flood of ‘55
Herself (archive footage)
1995
Film
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
Self (archive footage)
2017