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stilleto said:
When I read your posts, they remind me of Russell in His Girl Friday, and all those fast paced screwball comedies complemented by acerbic wit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Russell
She started her career as a fashion model and in many Broadway shows. In the early 1930s, she began to work for MGM, where she starred in many comedies, such as Forsaking All Others (1934) and Four's a Crowd (1938), as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife (1936) and The Citadel (1938). In 1939, she was cast as a catty gossip in the all-female comedy The Women, directed by George Cukor.
Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday
She proved her quick-witted talent for comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by Howard Hawks. She played a quick-witted ace reporter who was also the ex-wife of her former newspaper editor (played by Cary Grant).
In the 1940s, she continued to make both comedies such as The Feminine Touch (1941) and Take a Letter Darling (1942), dramas like Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), and a murder mystery The Velvet Touch (1948).
Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her Tony Award-winning performance in Wonderful Town in 1953. The play was a musical version of her successful film of a decade earlier, My Sister Eileen. Russell reprised her starring role in the musical version in 1958 in a television special.
Probably her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit Auntie Mame (1956) and the subsequent movie version (1958), in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her. When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!"
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, she starred in a large number of movies, giving notable performances in Picnic (1956), Gypsy (1962) and The Trouble with Angels (1966).
Russell was the logical choice for reprising her role as "Auntie Mame" when its Broadway musical adaptation Mame was set for production in 1966. She claimed to have turned it down since she preferred to move on to different roles. In reality, she did not want to burden the public with her growing health problems, which included rheumatoid arthritis.
Rosalind Russell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1708 Vine Street.
Funny you should post Hawkeye Pierce...Alan Alda is one of my all time favs.
LuluDeren said:I was going to post Nicholson or Bruce Willis for you, but then you'd think I was after your Karma.
Both would have been cool...I like those guys too.
