Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress who acted in lots of stage plays and many movies. She played a fast talking newspaper reporter in the 1940 screwball movie His Girl Friday and Mame Dennis in the movie Auntie Mame. Russell was born in Connecticut. She died from breast cancer at age sixty-nine in Beverly Hills, California.
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In The Women (1939) with Norma Shearer
Lionel Barrymore's 61st birthday in 1939, standing: Mickey Rooney, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, William Powell, Robert Taylor, seated: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, and Rosalind Russell
With Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy in His Girl Friday (1940)
Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town, on the cover of Time (March 30, 1953)
Rosalind Russell (left) and Polly Rowles in the original Broadway production of Auntie Mame (1957)
Six months before her death, Russell meets with First Lady Betty Ford (herself a breast cancer survivor) at the White House on May 11, 1976