Rosalind Russell
Acting • Born 1907-06-04 – Died 1976-11-28
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.
Filmography
81 credits
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Hildy Johnson
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Women
Movie • 1939
Sylvia Fowler
The Crooked Hearts
Movie • 1972
Laurita Dorsey
My Sister Eileen
Movie • 1942
Ruth Sherwood
The Velvet Touch
Movie • 1948
Valerie Stanton
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Movie • 1967
Madame Rosepettle
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Movie • 1947
Janet Ames
Auntie Mame
Movie • 1958
Mame Dennis
The Trouble with Angels
Movie • 1966
Mother Superior
Four's a Crowd
Movie • 1938
Jean Christy
Gypsy
Movie • 1962
Rose Hovick
Picnic
Movie • 1955
Rosemary - The School Teacher
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Elizabeth Kenny
Reckless
Movie • 1935
Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Movie • 1968
Mother Simplicia
China Seas
Movie • 1935
Sybil Barclay
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie • 1947
Lavinia Mannon
Rendezvous
Movie • 1935
Joel Carter
Evelyn Prentice
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Nancy Harrison
The Citadel
Movie • 1938
Christine Manson
Under Two Flags
Movie • 1936
Lady Venetia Cunningham
Night Must Fall
Movie • 1937
Olivia Grayne
The Feminine Touch
Movie • 1941
Julie Hathaway
Design for Scandal
Movie • 1941
Judge Cornelia C. Porter
They Met in Bombay
Movie • 1941
Anya Von Duren
The Casino Murder Case
Movie • 1935
Doris Reed
Hired Wife
Movie • 1940
Kendal Browning
Take a Letter, Darling
Movie • 1942
A.M. MacGregor
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie • 1945
Dr. Susan A. Lane
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
Josephine "Jo" McBain
Craig's Wife
Movie • 1936
Harriet Craig
West Point of the Air
Movie • 1935
Dare Marshall
Forsaking All Others
Movie • 1934
Eleanor
A Woman of Distinction
Movie • 1950
Susan Manning Middlecott
No Time for Comedy
Movie • 1940
Linda Paige Esterbrook
Roughly Speaking
Movie • 1945
Louise Randall Pierson
Flight for Freedom
Movie • 1943
Tonie Carter
A Majority of One
Movie • 1961
Bertha Jacoby
The Girl Rush
Movie • 1955
Kim Halliday
Live, Love and Learn
Movie • 1937
Julie Stoddard
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Pollifax
Trouble for Two
Movie • 1936
Miss Vandeleur
The Flood of ‘55
Movie • 1995
Herself (archive footage)
Fast and Loose
Movie • 1939
Garda Sloane
The Night Is Young
Movie • 1935
Countess Zarika Rafay
Man-Proof
Movie • 1938
Elizabeth Kent
Rosie!
Movie • 1967
Rosie Lord
What a Woman
Movie • 1943
Carol Ainsley
This Thing Called Love
Movie • 1940
Ann Winters
Tell It to the Judge
Movie • 1949
Marsha Meredith
Five Finger Exercise
Movie • 1962
Louise Harington
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Movie • 1945
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie • 1942
Self
It Had to Happen
Movie • 1936
Beatrice Newnes
Wonderful Town
Movie • 1958
Ruth Sherwood
The President Vanishes
Movie • 1934
Sally Voorman
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie • 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Blow-Ups of 1947
Movie • 1947
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1937
Self
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1944
Movie • 1944
Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie • 1940
Self
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Movie • 1936
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie • 1994
Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life is a Banquet
Movie • 2009
Self (Archive Footage)
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Cynthia
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Self - Guest Host
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self