Rosalind Russell was one of those impossibly-beautiful and classy women of Hollywood’s Golden Era. When I first started putting this piece together, though, I couldn’t remember if I’d ever seen her in a movie. But as I looked at her pics, it all came back to me: His Girl Friday with Cary Grant, Mourning Becomes Electra with Michael Redgrave, and of course The Women — where she more than held her own against such divas as Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Ruth Hussey and Joan Fontaine. (All three movies come highly recommended, if you haven’t seen any of them before.)
And then there was that beauty and class:
I think I’m going to look for some of her other movies to watch, and marvel.
Auntie Mame
In her latter years I second Auntie Mame. Also catch her and Natalie Wood in GYPSY.