Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell (4 June 1907 – 28 November 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday.
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Quotes
[edit]- Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
- Rosalind Russell, Life is a Banquet
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Rosalind Russell p. 383
[edit]- At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.
- Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Quotes about
[edit]- Roz Russell got so frightened at Cary's glibness that she told me she'd hired a gag writer on the side to interpolate bits for her.
- Ralph Bellamy, speaking about His Girl Friday with James Bawden in either 1978, 1983 or 1988; as quoted in Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 36
- Roz is in Hollywood, but she's not of it.
- Kay Francis, as quoted by Russell in Life is a Banquet (1977), p. 241
