Rosalind Russell
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"Rosalind Russell" was an American actress of theatre/stage and film/screen, 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 (film)/Auntie Mame (1958) and Rose Thompson Hovick/Rose in Gypsy (1962 film)/Gypsy (1962). She won all five Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and Meryl Streep was tied for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. 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 (1942 film)/My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred).

Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified, ladylike women, as well as for being one of the few actresses of her time who regularly played professional women, such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s, and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol.

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

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

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

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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

There was some kind of connection with that sweet boy. Both of us had water in our eyes when I left.

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

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

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