
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.

This Thing Called Love

The Crooked Hearts

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

They Met in Bombay

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Women

Breakdowns of 1941

That's Entertainment! III

The Romance of Celluloid

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What's My Line?

Auntie Mame

Night Must Fall

My Sister Eileen

Sister Kenny

Hired Wife

Roughly Speaking

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The Trouble with Angels

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Wonderful Town

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

The Casino Murder Case

Take a Letter, Darling

Breakdowns of 1944

Letter to Loretta

Evelyn Prentice

The Citadel

General Electric Theater

Picnic

Gypsy

Craig's Wife

Tell It to the Judge

Blow-Ups of 1947

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

A Woman of Distinction

The Velvet Touch

China Seas

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Mourning Becomes Electra

Under Two Flags

West Point of the Air

Trouble for Two

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Forsaking All Others

The President Vanishes

The Guilt of Janet Ames

A Majority of One

The Night Is Young

Fast and Loose

What a Woman

It Had to Happen

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Flight for Freedom

The Mike Douglas Show

Live, Love and Learn

Reckless

No Time for Comedy

Design for Scandal

Four's a Crowd

Five Finger Exercise

Breakdowns of 1938

The Feminine Touch

Never Wave at a WAC

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

Rendezvous

Man-Proof

The Girl Rush

Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'

Rosie!

Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

From the Ends of the Earth

Life is a Banquet