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Rosalind Russell

Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), as well as for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame (1958) and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedian, she won all five Golden Globes for which she was nominated. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based on the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times throughout her career.

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The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

Feet, Fooling, Love, Men, Scene

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Beauty, Careers, Joy, Secret, Successful

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

Adventure, Deadly, Enormous, Extraordinary, Outrageous

In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.

My Best Friend, Littles, Telephones, Tan, Become, Types

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Night, White, House, Eat

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

Ems, Flops, Match, Missed

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Movie, Giving, Theatre, Give, Moments

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Acting, Motivational, Naked, Slowly, Standing, Theatre

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Couple, Good, Movie, People

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Pain, Years, And Love, Aches, Sweeter

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Funny, Life, Movie, Starving, Banquet, Poor

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Beautiful, Beauty, Joy, Life, Living, Taking

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Memorable, Funeral, Political, Affair, Success, Private

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Beauty, Deprivation, Starvation

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Lines, Defence, Behinds, Loy, Myrna, Line

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Courage, Affliction, Defeat, Happens, Let

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Courses, Flops, Girl, Goal, Motivational, Part

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Mother, Forgiving, Tautology, Irish

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Away, Becoming, Buy, Send, Taste, Wonderful