1911-10-30 ( 113 years old ) in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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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.
Movies
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973-11-08
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
1970-06-11
The Facts of Life
1960-11-14
The Lady Wants Mink
1953-03-29
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952-12-22
Woman of the North Country
1952-07-23
That's My Boy
1951-05-31
Mr. Music
1950-12-08
Louisa
1950-05-31
The Great Gatsby
1949-07-13
I, Jane Doe
1948-05-25
Her Favorite Patient
1945-06-22
Marine Raiders
1944-07-11
Tender Comrade
1944-05-30
The Uninvited
1944-02-24
Tennessee Johnson
1942-12-01
Pierre of the Plains
1942-07-29
Soaring Stars
1942-04-25
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04
Married Bachelor
1941-10-16
Our Wife
1941-08-20
Free and Easy
1941-02-28
Flight Command
1940-12-27
The Philadelphia Story
1940-12-05
Susan and God
1940-06-07
Northwest Passage
1940-02-23
Another Thin Man
1939-11-17
Fast and Furious
1939-10-06
Blackmail
1939-09-08
The Women
1939-09-01
Maisie
1939-06-22
Within the Law
1939-03-17
Honolulu
1939-02-03
Spring Madness
1938-11-11
Time Out for Murder
1938-09-25
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938-08-12
Hold That Kiss
1938-05-13
Judge Hardy's Children
1938-03-26
Man-Proof
1938-01-07
Madame X
1937-10-01
Big City
1937-09-03
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