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Rosalind Russell

Date of Death: November 28, 1976 (65)

Birth Place: Waterbury, CT, USA

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Rosalind Russell STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
1956
Auntie Mame

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1953
Ruth Sherwood

[Broadway]
1931
Miss Mallory

[Broadway]
1930 Edition [return engagement], 1930
Performer


Rosalind Russell Movies

[1934]Evelyn Prentice Mrs. Nancy Harrison

[1934]The President Vanishes Sally Voorman

[1934]Forsaking All Others Eleanor

[1935]China Seas Sybil

[1935]The Night Is Young Countess Zarika Rafay

[1935]West Point of the Air Dare Marshall

[1935]The Casino Murder Case Doris Reed

[1935]Reckless Josephine Jo Mercer

[1935]Rendezvous Joel Carter

[1936]It Had to Happen Beatrice Newnes

[1936]Trouble for Two Miss Vandeleur

[1936]Under Two Flags Lady Venetia Cunningham

[1936]Craig's Wife Harriet Craig

[1937]Night Must Fall Olivia GHRayne

[1937]Live, Love and Learn Julie Stoddard

[1938]Four's a Crowd Jean Christy

[1938]Man-Proof Elizabeth Kent

[1938]The Citadel Christine

[1939]Fast and Loose Garda Sloane

[1939]The Women Mrs. Howard Fowler Sylvia

[1940]His Girl Friday Hildy Johnson

[1940]No Time for Comedy Linda Paige Esterbrook

[1940]Hired Wife Kendal Browning

[1940]This Thing Called Love Ann Winters

[1941]The Feminine Touch Julie Hathaway

[1941]Design for Scandal Judge Cornelia Porter

[1941]They Met in Bombay Anya Von Duren

[1942]Take a Letter, Darling A.M. MacGregor

[1942]My Sister Eileen Ruth Sherwood

[1943]Flight for Freedom Tonie Carter

[1943]What a Woman! Carol Ainsley

[1945]She Wouldn't Say Yes Dr. Susan A. Lane

[1945]Roughly Speaking Louise Randall Pierson

[1946]Sister Kenny Elizabeth Kenny

[1947]Mourning Becomes Electra Lavinia Mannon

[1947]The Guilt of Janet Ames Janet Ames

[1948]The Velvet Touch Valerie Stanton

[1949]Tell It to the Judge Marsha Meredith

[1950]A Woman of Distinction Susan Manning Middlecott

[1953]Never Wave at a WAC Jo McBain

[1955]Picnic Rosemary, the School Teacher

[1955]The Girl Rush Kim Halliday

[1956]The Unguarded Moment writer

[1958]Auntie Mame Mame Dennis

[1961]A Majority of One Bertha Jacoby

[1962]Gypsy Rose Hovick

[1962]Five Finger Exercise Louise Harington

[1966]The Trouble with Angels Mother Superior

[1967]Rosie! Rosie Lord

[1967]Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Madame Rosepettle

[1968]Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! Mother Superior

[1971]Mrs. Pollifax-Spy Mrs. Pollifax

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Musicals Affected By the TikTok-Universal Fallout: WICKED, PHANTOM & More Banned From the App

Decca Broadway, a frequent contributor of Broadway cast recordings and movie musical soundtracks, is a subsidary of Universal Music Group, therefore all its releases have been taken off TikTok. This includes Wicked, Mamma Mia, Les Miserables, SHREK the Musical, Phantom of the Opera, Spring Awakening, Cats, Evita, and more.

Album Review: Out Of The Past Comes Rose Marie's 1st Ever CD Collection For Her 100th Birthday on ROSE MARIE SINGS

For those of us for whom she represents more than kitsch, this album is an essential.

Photos: WONDERFUL TOWN 70TH ANNIVERSARY ALL-STAR CONCERT! at 54 Below

It's been seventy years since this iconic play opened on Broadway and this anniversary concert honored it well.

Review: GYPSY: A MUSICAL FABLE at Music Theater Heritage

Part of the fun of live theater is revisiting favorite materials and seeing how new directors and new actors re-interpret the material.  Often, the resulting production is only peripherally connected to the original show.  One example of this phenomenon is “Gypsy: A Musical Fable,” often called the greatest musical play of all time. 

Summer Movies At Sarasota Opera House To Begin May 12, 2023

Sarasota Opera has announced the lineup for the 2023 Summer Classic Movies at the Opera House. The Classic Movies at the Opera House series featuring many beloved movies will open on Friday, May 12th at 7:30 pm with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Throughout the summer and into the fall, featured movies will include films ranging from the 1930's to the 1990's. Tickets will be $12 and will go on sale starting on Wednesday, May 3. Additional movie titles are detailed below.  

Hollywood Comes To Palm Springs For UNSUNG MIDLER

Popular (and most times infamous) podcaster, journalist, on-air personality, and former Palm Springs Pride Media Grand Marshal Alexander Rodriguez returns to the stage after a five-year absence (thanks to procrastination and COVID) for an irreverent night of storytelling and song with Unsung Midler, celebrating the great, lesser-known hits of the Divine Miss M from The Rose, For the Boys, and Beaches to her numerous albums and covers.

UN DÍA COMO HOY: nacía Arthur Laurents

En el aniversario del dramaturgo estadounidense, queremos repasar su biografía así como sus obras más destacadas

UN DÍA COMO HOY: MAME se estrenaba en Broadway

La obra se estrenó con Angela Lansbury y Bea Arthur en el Winter Garden Theatre en 1966

Patti Murin, Colin Donnell, Jelani Alladin, Annaleigh Ashford and More to Take Part in DRUNKEN ARTISTS DRINKING GAME

As Americans celebrate the New Year, Nocking Point Wines has launched their first collaboration of 2021 with Broadway and TV stars Patti Murin and Colin Donnell. The extraordinarily talented married duo has fashioned a Cabernet Sauvignon/Malbec red blend called Eleven O'Clock Number.

City of Hope Announces Inaugural 'Celebrity Sale 4 Hope'

This pandemic has brought on challenging times.

BWW Feature: Ava Nicole Frances And The Divas of Halloween

With a little help from her dads, Ava Nicole Frances is the most popular kid in town every Halloween.

Theater Stories: JAGGED LITTLE PILL, Lee Strasberg-Directed Productions and More About The Broadhurst Theatre

This week's Theater Stories features The Broadhurst Theatre! Learn about Jagged Little Pill, nominated for 15 Tony Awards, The Group Theatre featuring Strasberg, Adler and others, the theatre's longest running show and so much more!

GYPSY, NINE, HELLO AGAIN and More Featured in BroadwayHD June Lineup

BroadwayHD today announced its upcoming June titles, which feature an exciting lineup and star studded casts, including hit comedies, original musical productions, popular theater films and more.

BWW Book Club: Read an Excerpt from UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY: The Winter Garden Theatre

BroadwayWorld Book Club is officially off and running! Or should we say, reading! The first BroadwayWorld Book Club selection is Jennifer Ashley Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 1. Tepper has just released the first volume of the book for free on Kindle!

BWW Review: HENRY IV, PART 1 Sets 'Fire' to the 'Reign' at Orlando Shakes

A few weeks back, I attended the opening night of The Three Musketeers at Orlando Shakes. I marveled, in particular, at a rotating stage and staircase designed by Bert Scott. The way the production team used that stage always impressed me. Imagine my delight when I came back to Orlando Shakes for the opening weekend of HENRY IV, PART 1 and saw that same exact stage now being used to represent 1492 England rather than 1628 France. Part of it is my fault, I didn't know they'd be using the same stage and assumed another theatre space at Orlando Shakes would house HENRY IV. But now knowing that this same space was used for two plays got the wheels in my head turning. It's a genius move on Orlando Shakes' part, creating a very fitting double-feature of entertainment. The same cast, the same stage, but two wholly different stories unfold.

TheatreZone Kicks Off 15th Season With HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, begins its 15th season with Home for the Holidays which will be presented at Dec. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 14 and 15 at 2:00 p.m.

Journeyman Features Releases Michele Remsen's Acclaimed Anti-Romantic Comedy TOSS IT Globally

“Toss It” takes a deeper look at the roles women play in society, as a true anti-romantic comedy, we join the characters where a romantic comedy would typically end with the classic prototypes: charming noncommittal guy and shrewd wary woman who's witty banter (instantly brings to mind a modern day Rosalind Russell & Cary Grant), lead all signs pointing toward the expected outcome. Then everything gets tossed. And gets real. As the men and women of “Toss It” battle for the stakes they set out to get, the story stealthily reveals that the real relationship skirmishes are among the women.

Journeyman Features to Release Michele Remsen's Acclaimed TOSS IT Globally on September 17th

UK distributor Journeyman Features will release this clever film across all VOD/Digital platforms in more than six languages as it crisscrosses the globe from Australia to Zimbabwe beginning on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019. A true anti-romantic comedy, we join the characters where a romantic comedy would typically end with the classic prototypes: charming noncommittal guy and shrewd wary woman who's witty banter (instantly brings to mind a modern day Rosalind Russell & Cary Grant), lead all signs pointing toward the expected outcome. Then everything gets tossed. And gets real. As the men and women of “Toss It” battle for the stakes they set out to get, the story stealthily reveals that the real relationship skirmishes are among the women.

BWW Review: The Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts Summer Camp Presents Stephen Sondheim's Hilarious A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Ruth Eckerd Hall

When it comes to Tony Award snubbing, there are several artistic high crimes and misdemeanors. For instance, Fiorello! winning Best Musical over Gypsy, or the good Music Man besting the better West Side Story. Or how about this awful upset: Two Gentlemen of Verona (the since-forgotten musical) beating both Grease and Follies for the top honor. Perhaps worst of all is this: Even though A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM was Stephen Sondheim's first and most successful Broadway show as a composer and lyricist, and even though it would win six of its eight nominated Tony Awards in 1962-1963 (including Best Musical), Mr. Sondheim himself was not even nominated for his lyrics and score. A show that features some of the most beloved comic songs from the early 1960's--'Comedy Tonight,' 'Lovely,' and 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid'--wasn't even nominated for these iconic numbers. (For the record, Oliver! won that year for Best Score.) Broadway's greatest composer would have to wait almost a decade to receive his first Tony Award.

Rosalind Russell FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Rosalind Russell has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.

Rosalind Russell has not appeared in the West End

Rosalind Russell has been nominated for several awards throughout her career. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her role in "Auntie Mame" and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her role in "Wonderful Town". These nominations showcase her talent and recognition in both the play and musical categories.

Rosalind Russell has won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her performance in "Wonderful Town".

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