Biography of rosalind russell

Finally, Grant took matters into his own hands.

One night he and I had a date to go dancing, and when inom went to the door to let him in, he was standing there with another man. “Who the hell is this?” I thought, but I said, “Hi,” and Cary looked sheepish. “This,” he said, “is Freddie Brisson.” I invited them in for a drink…soon Cary and I were screaming and laughing, and every now and then I would turn to this character and say “Isn’t that so?” or “What do you think?” and he would just sort of smile.

For the next nine months, Brisson repeatedly called an uninterested Russell. “I’d bellow, so he could hear it, ‘Tell him I’m not home,’” she writes. Feeling sorry for him, Russell finally gave Brisson a chance. She was surprised to discover that far from being shy, he was warm, garrulous and gregarious.

But Russell wasn’t done playing hard-to-get. On the morning of their wedding in , the nervous groom had a rude awakening. “I looked out my motel window and saw my bride-to-be marchin

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A brilliant, charismatic and charming actress, Rosalind Russell spent her more than four-decades long career reflecting her own life experiences and observations on the world in the characters she brought to life on stage and screen. She was the winner of five Golden Globe awards and a Tony Award as well as the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in

Rosalind Russell was born in in Waterbury, Conn., to an educated and affluent family. Her father was a prominent trial lawyer and her mother a fashion editor for Vogue. One of seven siblings, she was named after the Steamship S.S. Rosalind on which her parents had once traveled. Russell attended the Notre Dame Academy in Waterbury and then Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y. After two years there, she convinced her mother that she intended to teach theater and was allowed to enroll in the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts in New York City. The plan, however, was always to become

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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, having convinced her mother that she intended to teach acting. In , 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 (). George Cukor told her to "play her as a freak". She did and got the part.