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person_profile-Ruth Hussey

Ruth Hussey Died at age: 93

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Ruth Hussey

Date of Birth:

Oct 30, 1911

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 19, 2005

Biography of

Ruth Hussey

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.

    After working as an actress in summer stock, she returned to Providence and worked as a radio fashion commentator on a local station. She wrote the ad copy for a Providence clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon. She was encouraged by a friend to try out for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse. The theater director there turned her down, saying the roles were cast only out of New York City. Later that week, she journeyed to New York City and on her first day there, she signed with a talent agent who booked her for a role in a play starting the next day back at the Providence Playhouse.

    In New York City, she also worked for a time as a model. She then landed a number of stage roles with touring companies. Dead End toured the country in 1937 and the last theater on the road trip was at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, where she was spotted on opening night by MGM talent scout Billy Grady. MGM signed her to a players contract and she made her film debut in 1937. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles. For a 1940 "A" picture role, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Elizabeth Imbrie, the cynical magazine photographer and almost-girlfriend of James Stewart's character Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story. In 1941, exhibitors voted her the third-most popular new star in Hollywood.

    Hussey also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight Command (1940), Robert Young in Northwest Passage (1940) and H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942), Ray Milland in The Uninvited (1944), and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949).

    In 1946, she starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union. Her 1949 role in Goodbye, My Fancy on Broadway caused a Billboard reviewer to write: "Miss Hussey brings a splendid aliveness and warmth to the lovely congresswoman...."

    She filled in for Jean Arthur in the 1955 Lux Radio Theater presentation of Shane, playing Miriam Start, alongside original film stars Alan Ladd and Van Heflin.

    In 1960, she co-starred in The Facts of Life with Bob Hope. Hussey was also active in early television drama.

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Ruth Hussey

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Filmography of

Ruth Hussey

Found 41 Movies in total

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

Maggie Cartwright ( Actor )

... 1973

The Facts of Life

Mary Gilbert ( Actor )

... 1960

The Lady Wants Mink

Nora Connors ( Actor )

... 1953

Stars and Stripes Forever

Jennie Sousa ( Actor )

... 1952

Woman of the North Country

Christine Powell ( Actor )

... 1952

That's My Boy

Ann Jackson ( Actor )

... 1951

... 1951

Mr. Music

Lorna Marvis ( Actor )

... 1950

Louisa

Meg Norton ( Actor )

... 1950

The Great Gatsby

Jordan Baker ( Actor )

... 1949

I, Jane Doe

Eve Meredith Curtis ( Actor )

... 1948

Her Favorite Patient

Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD ( Actor )

... 1945

Marine Raiders

Lt. Ellen Foster ( Actor )

... 1944

Tender Comrade

Barbara Thomas ( Actor )

... 1944

The Uninvited

Pamela Fitzgerald ( Actor )

... 1944

Tennessee Johnson

Eliza McCardle Johnson ( Actor )

... 1942

Pierre of the Plains

Daisy Denton ( Actor )

... 1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham ( Actor )

... 1941

Married Bachelor

Norma Haven ( Actor )

... 1941

Our Wife

Professor Susan Drake ( Actor )

... 1941

Free and Easy

Martha Gray ( Actor )

... 1941

Flight Command

Lorna Gray ( Actor )

... 1940

The Philadelphia Story

Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie ( Actor )

... 1940

Susan and God

Charlotte ( Actor )

... 1940

Northwest Passage

Elizabeth Browne ( Actor )

... 1940

Another Thin Man

Dorothy Waters ( Actor )

... 1939

Fast and Furious

Lily Cole ( Actor )

... 1939

Blackmail

Helen Ingram ( Actor )

... 1939

The Women

Miss Wattson ( Actor )

... 1939

Maisie

Sybil Ames ( Actor )

... 1939

Within the Law

Mary Turner ( Actor )

... 1939

Honolulu

Eve ( Actor )

... 1939

Spring Madness

Kate McKim ( Actor )

... 1938

Time Out for Murder

Peggy Norton, victim ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Duchess de Polignac (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Joan Thayer ( Actor )

... 1938

Hold That Kiss

Nadine Piermont ( Actor )

... 1938

Judge Hardy's Children

Margaret Lee ( Actor )

... 1938

Man-Proof

Jane (dialogue scenes deleted) ( Actor )

... 1938

Madame X

Annette ( Actor )

... 1937

Big City

Mayor's Secretary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937