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Rosalind Lee Walton-Russell was born on April 9, 1945, and has siblings Howard Ashwell Wlton and Marvin Ashwell Walton Jr.. Rosalind Walton-Russell got married to James Russell on February 21, 1987 at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, in Mineola, Wood County, Texas United States, and has a child Jasmine Camille Russell. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalind Lee Walton-Russell.
Rosalind Catherine Russell was born to James Edward Russell (1860 - 1926) and Clara A. McKnight (1874 - 1958). Both of her parents were born in Connecticut. She had siblings James Edward, Clara J., John J.. George Benedict, Mary Jane, and Josephine B. Russell.
The middle of seven children, she was named after the S.S. Rosalind 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, having convinced her mother that she intended to teach acting. In 1934, with some stock company work and a little Broadway experience, she was tested and signed by Universal. Simultaneously MGM tested her and made her a better offer. When she plead ignorance of Hollywood (while wearing her worst-fitting clothes), Universal released her and she signed with MGM for seven years. For some time she was used in secondary roles and as a replacement threat to limit Myrna Loy's salary demands. Knowing she was right for comedy, she tested five times for the role of Sylvia Fowler in The Women (1939). George Cukor told her to "play her as a freak." She did and got the part. Her "boss lady" roles began with the part of reporter Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), through whose male lead, Cary Grant, she met her future husband, Grant's house guest at the time.
In her forties, she returned to the stage, touring "Bell, Book and Candle" in 1951 and winning a Tony for "Wonderful Town" in 1953. Columbia, worried the public would think she had the female lead in Picnic (1956), billed her "co-starring Rosalind Russell as Rosemary." She refused to accept an Oscar nomination as supporting actress for the part, an Oscar she would no doubt have won had she relented. "Auntie Mame" kept her on Broadway for two years followed by the movie version.
Following her death, she was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She died about three weeks after Patrick Dennis, the author of Auntie Mame (1958), which was one of her most famous roles.
Rosalind gave birth to her only child at age 35, a son Lance Brisson, on May 7, 1943. Lance's father was her husband, Frederick Brisson.
Rosalind won Broadway's 1953 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Wonderful Town", a musical based on the same source as her film My Sister Eileen (1942), for which she received an Oscar nomination playing the same character. She also received a 1957 Tony Award nomination as Best Actress (Dramatic for "Auntie Mame", a role she recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version Auntie Mame (1958).
See Rosalind Russell: Obituary.
was an American actress, comedienne, 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 Auntie Mame (1958) and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne,[3] she won all five Golden Globes for which she was nominated. Russell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1953 for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based on the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times during her career before being awarded a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973.
In addition to her comedic roles, Russell was known for playing dramatic characters, often wealthy, dignified, and stylish women. She was one of the few actresses of her time to portray women in professional roles such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists. Russell's career spanned from 1930s to the 1970s and she attributed this longevity to the fact that, although she had many glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol and she was a solid Christian unlike the riff raff now overflowing like a colossal tidal wave of defiled excrement from too many (un) Holy wood.
Rosalind L Russell of TX was born circa 1946. Rosalind Russell was married to James A. Russell on February 21, 1987 in Wood County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalind L. (Walton) Russell.
Rosalind Russell was born on March 24, 1948, and died at age 32 years old in March 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalind Russell.
Rosalind M Russell of Fresno, Fresno County, CA was born on February 2, 1954, and died at age 41 years old on August 28, 1995.
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