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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.
Ruth Hussey Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ruth Hussey |
| Also Know | Ruth March, Рут ХаÑÑи |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1911-10-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
| Deathday | 2005-04-19 |
Ruth Hussey Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Within the Law | Mary Turner | 1939-03-17 | A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge…. |
| I, Jane Doe | Eve Meredith Curtis | 1948-05-25 | While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The F… |
| Her Favorite Patient | Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD | 1945-06-22 | A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town’s doctor, wants her to stay and … |
| The Uninvited | Pamela Fitzgerald | 1944-02-18 | A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find has been abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with … |
| Our Wife | Professor Susan Drake | 1941-08-20 | A musician’s ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success…. |
| Flight Command | Lorna Gray | 1940-12-27 | A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn’t make a great first impression … |
| Blackmail | Helen Ingram | 1939-09-08 | A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him…. |
| My Darling Daughters’ Anniversary | Maggie Cartwright | 1973-11-08 | In this sequel, the daughters’ anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried…. |
| Married Bachelor | Norma Haven | 1941-10-16 | A man’s marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting “his” best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentri… |
| The Lady Wants Mink | Nora Connors | 1953-03-29 | A woman raises mink to get the coat she’s always wanted…. |
| Free and Easy | Martha Gray | 1941-02-28 | This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello’s play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max rom… |
| Pierre of the Plains | Daisy Denton | 1942-07-29 | A French-Canadian trapper’s adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper…. |
| Woman of the North Country | Christine Powell | 1952-07-23 | In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are … |
| Susan and God | Charlotte | 1940-06-07 | A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group…. |
| The Facts of Life | Mary Gilbert | 1960-11-14 | Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other’s manner grating,… |
| Maisie | Sybil Ames | 1939-06-22 | Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman… |
| Tennessee Johnson | Eliza McCardle Johnson | 1942-12-01 | The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers his early … |
| That’s My Boy | Ann Jackson | 1951-05-31 | Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden… |
| H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Cordelia ‘Kay’ Motford Pulham | 1941-12-04 | A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman…. |
| Tender Comrade | Barbara Thomas | 1944-05-30 | Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situati… |
| The Resurrection of Broncho Billy | Voice Over | 1970-06-11 | The story of a young man, a self-styled cowboy; His dreams of the Old West and its film heroes frequently crushed by the rhythms of modern, urban life… |
| Fast and Furious | Lily Cole | 1939-10-06 | Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel’s pal… |
| Rich Man, Poor Girl | Joan Thayer | 1938-08-12 | A millionaire courts a working-class woman…. |
| Marine Raiders | Lt. Ellen Foster | 1944-07-11 | A Marine major (Pat O’Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia…. |
| Spring Madness | Kate McKim | 1938-11-11 | Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as “The Lippencott” (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after gra… |
| Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration | Mary | 1951-03-25 | The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War…. |
| Louisa | Meg Norton | 1950-05-31 | Architect Ronald Reagan and wife Ruth Hussey invite his widowed mother (Spring Byington) to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady… |
| The Philadelphia Story | Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Imbrie | 1940-12-05 | When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself…. |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Jennie Sousa | 1952-01-01 | Marine bandmaster John Philip Sousa (Clifton Webb) becomes famous for his marches and inspires the sousaphone…. |
| Northwest Passage | Elizabeth Browne | 1940-02-23 | Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers, as the legendary elite force e… |
| The Great Gatsby | Jordan Baker | 1949-07-13 | Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th… |
| Mr. Music | Lorna Marvis | 1950-12-08 | A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary consp… |
| Another Thin Man | Dorothy Waters | 1939-11-17 | Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate…. |
| Judge Hardy’s Children | Margaret Lee | 1938-03-26 | Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador’s daughter…. |
| Madame X | Annette | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
| Hold That Kiss | Nadine Piermont | 1938-05-13 | Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy…. |
| A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 | This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal… |
| The Women | Miss Wattson | 1939-09-01 | A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays…. |
| Time Out for Murder | Peggy Norton, victim | 1938-09-25 | A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate…. |
| Honolulu | Eve | 1939-02-03 | Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason’s fan… |
| Marie Antoinette | Duchess de Polignac (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
| Big City | Mayor’s Secretary (uncredited) | 1937-09-03 | Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr… |
Credit: TMDB
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