Rosalind Russell
American actress (1907-1976) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 69
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia Fowler in George Cukor's The Women...
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...Series, 19731971
Mrs. Pollifax - SpyFilm, Writer1970Golden Plate AwardAward1967
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So SadFilm, Madame Rosepettle1964Hasty Pudding Woman of the YearAward1963Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAward1962Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAward
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries, 1962
GypsyFilm, 1962Rose Hovick1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1959Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAward
StartimeSeries, 19591958
Auntie MameFilm, Mame Dennis1955
PicnicFilm, Rosemary - The School Teacher1953Tony Award for Best Actress in a MusicalAward
General Electric TheaterSeries, 1953Cynthia
Letter to LorettaSeries, 1953
The OscarsSeries, 19531951
Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeries1950
What's My Line?Series1949
Tell It to the JudgeFilm, Marsha Meredith1948Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAward
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries, 1948
The Velvet TouchFilm, 1948Valerie Stanton1947Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAward1946
Sister KennyFilm, Elizabeth Kenny1942
My Sister EileenFilm, Ruth Sherwood1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of SoundFilm1938
Four's a CrowdFilm, Jean Christy1936
Craig's WifeFilm, Harriet Craig1934
Evelyn PrenticeFilm, Mrs. Nancy Harrison1907Born4 June 1907Known for
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His Girl Friday 1940
The Women 1939
Auntie Mame 1958
The Trouble with Angels 1966
Gypsy 1962
People around Rosalind
Alexander Hall Directed My Sister Eileen (1942)
Hunt Stromberg Produced The Women and Night Must Fall
Michael Curtiz Directed Four's a Crowd and Roughly Speaking
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Under Two Flags and It Had to Happen
Mervyn LeRoy Produced Gypsy (1963)
Jack L. Warner Produced Four's a Crowd and No Time for Comedy
Richard Thorpe Directed Night Must Fall and Man-Proof
W. S. Van Dyke Directed Forsaking All Others (1934)
Richard Quine Directed Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)
Binnie Barnes Also in This Thing Called Love and Rendezvous- Dudley Nichols Directed Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
William K. Howard Directed Evelyn Prentice and Rendezvous
Edwin L. Marin Directed The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Gino Corrado Also in My Sister Eileen and The Feminine Touch
Leslie H. Martinson Directed Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)
Virginia Van Upp Produced She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
Fred Kohlmar Produced Picnic and Take a Letter, Darling
Louis D. Lighton Produced Man-Proof and Trouble for Two
Clark Gable Also in Forsaking All Others (1934)
Robert Benchley Also in China Seas and Live, Love and Learn- Franz Waxman Wrote The Feminine Touch and Man-Proof
Allyn Joslyn Also in My Sister Eileen (1942)
Wade Boteler Also in His Girl Friday and Reckless- George Oppenheimer Wrote Rendezvous and Man-Proof
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In The Women (1939) with Norma Shearer
Lionel Barrymore's 61st birthday in 1939, standing: Mickey Rooney, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, William Powell, Robert Taylor, seated: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, and Rosalind Russell
With Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy in His Girl Friday (1940)
Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town, on the cover of Time (March 30, 1953)
Rosalind Russell (left) and Polly Rowles in the original Broadway production of Auntie Mame (1957)
Six months before her death, Russell meets with First Lady Betty Ford (herself a breast cancer survivor) at the White House on May 11, 1976
Grave of Rosalind Russell at Holy Cross CemeteryAwards
About this person
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia Fowler in George Cukor's The Women (1939), opposite Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, and for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in the 1956 stage and 1958 film adaptations of Auntie Mame, and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne, she received various accolades, including five Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Russell has been honored with a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1975.
In the same film or series as Rosalind
Joan CrawfordAlso in Forsaking All Others (1934)
William HoldenAlso in Picnic (1955)
Jonathan WintersAlso in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
Myrna LoyAlso in Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Lana TurnerAlso in Four's a Crowd (1938)
Norma ShearerAlso in The Women (1939)