​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.

Фільмографія

• 1973My Darling Daughters' Anniversary — Maggie Cartwright
• 1970The Resurrection of Broncho Billy — Voice Over
• Vacation Playhouse — Nurse Edie Ramsey
• The Case of the Dangerous Robin — Maid
• 1960The Facts of Life — Mary Gilbert
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Maia
• MGM Parade
• Playwrights '56
• Альфред Гічкок представляє — Paula Hudson
• Climax! — Katherine Benson, Martha, Alice Moore
• Producers' Showcase — Mary Haines
• General Electric Theater — Emma
• The Christophers
• 1953The Lady Wants Mink — Nora Connors
• 1952Stars and Stripes Forever — Jennie Sousa
• 1952Woman of the North Country — Christine Powell
• 1951Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration — Mary
• 1951That's My Boy — Ann Jackson
• 1950Louisa — Meg Norton
• Lux Video Theatre — Polly Baxter, Kit Marlowe, Meg, Linda Carson, Irene, Harriet Craig
• 1950Mr. Music — Lorna Marvis
• 1949The Great Gatsby — Jordan Baker
• 1948I, Jane Doe — Eve Meredith Curtis
• Studio One — Nancy Edison
• 1945Bedside Manner — Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD
• 1944Marine Raiders — Lt. Ellen Foster
• 1944Tender Comrade — Barbara Thomas
• 1944The Uninvited — Pamela Fitzgerald
• 1942Pierre of the Plains — Daisy Denton
• 1942Tennessee Johnson — Eliza McCardle Johnson
• 1941Free and Easy — Martha Gray
• 1941H.M. Pulham, Esq. — Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham
• 1941Married Bachelor — Norma Haven
• 1941Our Wife — Professor Susan Drake
• 1940Flight Command — Lorna Gray
• 1940Northwest Passage — Elizabeth Browne
• 1940Susan and God — Charlotte
• 1940Філадельфійська історія — Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
• 1939Another Thin Man — Dorothy Waters
• 1939Blackmail — Helen Ingram
• 1939Fast and Furious — Lily Cole
• 1939Honolulu — Eve
• 1939Maisie — Sybil Ames
• 1939The Women — Miss Wattson
• 1939Within the Law — Mary Turner
• 1938Hold That Kiss — Nadine Piermont
• 1938Judge Hardy's Children — Margaret Lee
• 1938Man-Proof — Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)
• 1938Marie Antoinette — Duchess de Polignac (uncredited)
• 1938Rich Man, Poor Girl — Joan Thayer
• 1938Spring Madness — Kate McKim
• 1938Time Out for Murder — Peggy Norton, victim
• 1937Big City — Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
• 1937Madame X — Annette

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 1942Soaring Stars — Herself
• 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self