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Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, [2] 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 portrayals of Mame Dennis in the 1956 stage and 1958 film adaptations of Auntie Mame, and ...
Jul 12, 2024 · Rosalind Russell (born June 4, 1907, Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.—died November 28, 1976, Beverly Hills, California) was an American actress who was best remembered for her film and stage portrayals of witty, assertive, independent women. Russell attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made her Broadway debut in 1930 in the Theatre ...
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Catherine Rosalind Russell was born on June 4, 1907, in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. as the fourth of the seven children born to James Edward Russell, a trial attorney, and Clara McKnight, a school teacher. Her family was a wealthy one and she enjoyed a comfortable childhood. As a young girl she was an adventurous tomboy who loved to climb ...
Rosalind Russell. Actress: Auntie Mame. The middle of seven children, she was named, not for the heroine of "As You Like It" but for the S.S. Rosalind on which her parents had sailed, at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer. After receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York ...
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- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Aug 12, 2021 · In this breezy bouquet of an autobiography, Russell—a character actress trapped in a leading lady’s body—illustrates why everyone in golden-age Hollywood loved Roz. “Rosalind was a life ...
Nov 29, 1976 · Rosalind Russell, long one of the brightest stars of the American stage and screen, whose witty sophistication as Auntie Mame was a natural extension of Roz, the woman, died yesterday of cancer at ...
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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.
