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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 30, 1911
Died
April 19, 2005
Place of Birth
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Also Known As
- Ruth March
- Рут Хасси
Ruth Hussey
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Maggie Cartwright
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
6.3
Voice Over
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
1970
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Nurse Edie Ramsey
Vacation Playhouse
1963
5.1
Mary Gilbert
The Facts of Life
1960
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Maid
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960
6.3
Maia
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
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6.0
Playwrights '56
1955
7.8
Paula Hudson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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6.5
Mary Haines
Producers' Showcase
1954
3.3
Katherine Benson
Climax!
1954
Credits
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My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Maggie Cartwright
1973
6.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
as Voice Over
1970
6.3
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Vacation Playhouse
as Nurse Edie Ramsey
1963
7.0
The Facts of Life
as Mary Gilbert
1960
5.1
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
as Maid
1960
0.0
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Maia
1959
6.3
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Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Paula Hudson
1955
7.8
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Producers' Showcase
as Mary Haines
1954
6.5
Climax!
as Katherine Benson
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Martha
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Alice Moore
1954
3.3
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The Christophers
1953
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The Lady Wants Mink
as Nora Connors
1953
6.0
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Emma
1953
6.4
Stars and Stripes Forever
as Jennie Sousa
1952
6.9
Woman of the North Country
as Christine Powell
1952
4.0
That's My Boy
as Ann Jackson
1951
5.8
Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration
as Mary
1951
4.0
Mr. Music
as Lorna Marvis
1950
4.0
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Lux Video Theatre
as Polly Baxter
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Kit Marlowe
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Meg
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Linda Carson
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Irene
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Harriet Craig
1950
6.3
Louisa
as Meg Norton
1950
6.1
The Great Gatsby
as Jordan Baker
1949
5.4
Studio One
as Nancy Edison
1948
5.0
I, Jane Doe
as Eve Meredith Curtis
1948
6.1
Bedside Manner
as Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD
1945
5.7
Marine Raiders
as Lt. Ellen Foster
1944
6.8
Tender Comrade
as Barbara Thomas
1944
6.0
The Uninvited
as Pamela Fitzgerald
1944
6.9
Tennessee Johnson
as Eliza McCardle Johnson
1942
6.1
Pierre of the Plains
as Daisy Denton
1942
4.0
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Soaring Stars
as Herself
1942
0.0
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham
1941
7.1
Married Bachelor
as Norma Haven
1941
5.8
Our Wife
as Professor Susan Drake
1941
5.7
Free and Easy
as Martha Gray
1941
5.5
Flight Command
as Lorna Gray
1940
5.6
The Philadelphia Story
as Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
1940
7.6
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Susan and God
as Charlotte
1940
6.5
Northwest Passage
as Elizabeth Browne
1940
6.5
Another Thin Man
as Dorothy Waters
1939
7.1
Fast and Furious
as Lily Cole
1939
4.7
Blackmail
as Helen Ingram
1939
6.4
The Women
as Miss Wattson
1939
7.1
Maisie
as Sybil Ames
1939
4.4
Within the Law
as Mary Turner
1939
6.0
Honolulu
as Eve
1939
6.1
Spring Madness
as Kate McKim
1938
3.9
Time Out for Murder
as Peggy Norton, victim
1938
5.7
Marie Antoinette
as Duchess de Polignac (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Joan Thayer
1938
5.9
Hold That Kiss
as Nadine Piermont
1938
6.5
Judge Hardy's Children
as Margaret Lee
1938
6.5
Man-Proof
as Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)
1938
4.3
Madame X
as Annette
1937
5.8
Big City
as Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
1937
7.4