Catherine Rosalind Russell
(৪ঠা জুন ১৯১৭ - ২৮শে নভেম্বর ১৯৭৬)
" Being typed as a lady is the greatest misfortune possible to a motion picture actress. It limits your characterizations, confines you to play feminine sops and menaces and the public never highly approves of either. An impeccably dressed lady is always viewed with suspicion in real life and when you strut onto the screen with beautiful clothes and charming manners, the most naive of theatergoers senses immediately that you are in a position to do the hero no good. I earnestly want to get away from this. First, because I want to improve my career and professional life and, secondly because I am tired of being a clothes horse – a sort of hothouse orchid in a stand of wild flowers. "
(Russell, who said in a 1936 interview )
একজন মার্কিন অভিনেত্রী, কৌতুকাভিনেত্রী, চিত্রনাট্যকার ও গায়িকা।
তিনি হাওয়ার্ড হক্স পরিচালিত স্ক্রুবল কমেডি হিজ গার্ল ফ্রাইডে (১৯৪০) চলচ্চিত্রে সংবাদ প্রতিবেদক হিল্ডি জনসন চরিত্রে অভিনয় করে পরিচিতি লাভ করেন।
১৯১৭ সালের ৪ঠা জুন কানেটিকাট অঙ্গরাজ্যের ওয়াটারবারি শহরে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তাঁর পিতা জেমস এডওয়ার্ড একজন আইনজীবী এবং মাতা ক্লারা এ. রাসেল (ম্যাকনাইট) একজন শিক্ষিকা ছিলেন।
রাসেলের সাত ভাইবোন ছিল। রাসেল পরিবার আইরিশ-মার্কিন ও ক্যাথলিক ধর্মাবলম্বী।
তাঁর নাম রাখা হয়েছিল তাঁর পিতামাতা যে জাহাজে চড়ে মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে আসেন সেই জাহাজের নামানুসারে। তিনি ক্যাথলিক স্কুলে পড়াশোনা করেন এবং পরে পেন্সিলভেনিয়ার রোজমন্টের রোজমন্ট কলেজ ও নিউ ইয়র্কের ট্যারিটাউনের ম্যারিমাউন্ট কলেজে পড়াশোনা করেন। পরবর্তী কালে তিনি নিউ ইয়র্ক সিটির আমেরিকান একাডেমি অব ড্রামাটিক আর্টসে ভর্তি হন। তার পিতামাতা ভেবেছিলেন রাসেল শিক্ষক হওয়ার জন্য পড়াশোনা করছেন এবং তারা তার অভিনেত্রী হওয়ার পরিকল্পনা সম্পর্কে অবগত ছিলেন না। পারফরমিং আর্টস স্কুল স্নাতক সম্পন্ন করার পর রাসেল সামার স্টকে অভিনয় শুরু করেন এবং পরে বোস্টনের রিপার্টরি কোম্পানিতে যোগদান করেন।
On October 25, 1941, Russell married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson (1912–1984), son of actor Carl Brisson. Cary Grant was responsible for the couple having met and was the best man at Frederick and Rosalind's wedding. Brisson had been traveling from England to the United States by ship in 1939, and The Women was playing on an endless loop during the voyage. After hearing the audio for the film day after day while traveling, Brisson decided he had better sit down and watch the whole film. He became so enamored with Russell's performance as Sylvia Fowler that he turned to his friends and proclaimed: "I'm either gonna kill that girl, or I'm gonna marry her."
Brisson stayed with Cary Grant in his guest house while Grant was filming His Girl Friday. Upon hearing that Grant was making the movie with Russell, Brisson asked his friend if he could meet her. Cary Grant then spent weeks greeting Russell each morning on set with the question "Have you met Freddie Brisson?" in an effort to pique the actress's curiosity. One night, when Russell opened her door to let Grant in before they went dancing, as they often did, she found him standing next to a stranger. Grant sheepishly explained that the odd fellow was Freddie Brisson, the man whom he had mentioned so often, and they set off for dinner, with Freddie in tow.
Russell and Brisson were married for 35 years, until her death. They had one child in 1943, a son, Carl Lance Brisson.
Russell was a registered Republican who supported the 1960 campaign of Richard Nixon.
Russell was a devout Catholic, and a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.
উল্লেখযোগ্য চলচ্চিত্র হল:
মাই সিস্টার এইলিন (১৯৪২),
সিস্টার কেনি (১৯৪৬),
মোর্নিং বিকামস ইলেক্ট্রা (১৯৪৭),
আন্টি মেম (১৯৫৮),
আ মেজরিটি অব ওয়ান (১৯৬১)
ও জিপসি (১৯৬২)।
Film
1934 Evelyn Prentice Mrs. Nancy Harrison
The President Vanishes Sally Voorman
Forsaking All Others Eleanor
1935 The Night Is Young Countess Zarika Rafay
The Casino Murder Case Doris
West Point of the Air Dare Marshall
Reckless Jo
China Seas Sybil Barclay
Rendezvous Joel Carter
1936 It Had to Happen Beatrice Newnes
Under Two Flags Lady Venetia Cunningham
Trouble for Two Miss Vandeleur
Craig's Wife Harriet Craig
1937 Night Must Fall Olivia Grayne
Live, Love and Learn Julie Stoddard
1938 Man-Proof Elizabeth Kent
Four's a Crowd Jean Christy
The Citadel Christine Barlow
1939 Fast and Loose Garda Sloane
The Women Sylvia Fowler
1940 His Girl Friday Hildy Johnson
Hired Wife Kendal Browning
No Time for Comedy Linda Esterbrook
This Thing Called Love Ann Winters
1941 They Met in Bombay Anya Von Duren
The Feminine Touch Julie Hathaway
Design for Scandal Judge Cornelia C. Porter
1942 Take a Letter, Darling A.M. MacGregor
My Sister Eileen Ruth Sherwood Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1943 Flight for Freedom Tonie Carter
What a Woman! Carol Ainsley
1945 Roughly Speaking Louise Randall Pierson
She Wouldn't Say Yes Dr. Susan A. Lane
1946 Sister Kenny Elizabeth Kenny Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1947 The Guilt of Janet Ames Janet Ames
Mourning Becomes Electra Lavinia Mannon Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1948 The Velvet Touch Valerie Stanton
1949 Tell It to the Judge Marsha Meredith
1950 A Woman of Distinction Susan Manning Middlecott
1953 Never Wave at a WAC Jo McBain
1955 The Girl Rush Kim Halliday
Picnic Miss Rosemary Sydney
1958 Auntie Mame Mame Dennis Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1961 A Majority of One Mrs. Bertha Jacoby Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1962 Five Finger Exercise Louise Harington
Gypsy Rose Hovick Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance (5th place)
1966 The Trouble with Angels Mother Superior Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance (4th place)
1967 Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Madame Rosepettle
Rosie! Rosie Lord
1968 Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows Mother Superior
1971 Mrs. Pollifax-Spy Mrs. Emily Pollifax Also screenwriter, credited as "C. A. McKnight"
Last film role
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Guest episode: Never Wave at a WAC
1953 What's My Line? Mystery Guest Air date: January 4, 1953
1955 The Loretta Young Show Guest Hostess episode: Week-End in Winnetka
episode: Fear Me Not
1956 General Electric Theater Cynthia episode: The Night Goes On
1958 Wonderful Town Ruth Sherwood TV movie
1959 Startime Host episode: The Wonderful World of Entertainment
1972 The Crooked Hearts Laurita Dorsey TV movie
Last appearance in any medium
Broadway theatre
Production Dates Title Role Genre Notes
October 16, 1930 – October 1930 The Garrick Gaieties Performer Musical revue
April 20, 1931 – April 1931 Company's Coming Miss Mallory Comedy
February 25, 1953 – July 3, 1954 Wonderful Town Ruth Sherwood Musical Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
October 31, 1956 – June 28, 1958 Auntie Mame Auntie Mame Comedy Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Radio appearances
Year Program Episode/Source
1939 Lux Radio Theatre Stage Door role of Terry
1940 Screen Guild Players Ninotchka
1941 Lux Radio Theatre Craig's Wife[31]
1951 Screen Directors Playhouse Take a Letter, Darling
1952 Theatre Guild on the Air The Damask Cheek
Awards and nominations :
Over the course of her career, Russell was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in My Sister Eileen (1942); Sister Kenny (1946); Mourning Becomes Electra (1947); and Auntie Mame (1958). She also won five Golden Globe Awards. She was nominated for two Tony Awards, winning once. She also received a Special Academy Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1972, which came with an Oscar statuette. In 1975, she was given the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
In 1972, Russell received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[20]She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Russell is honored at the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis. Her portrait and a description of her work hang in the lobby, as Congress made a grant in 1979 to establish the research center, in honor of her Congressional appointment to the National Commission on Arthritis.
Russell died of breast cancer on November 28, 1976. She was survived by her husband and her son. She is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Russell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 1700 block of Vine Street.
Her autobiography Life Is a Banquet, written with Chris Chase, was published a year after her death. The foreword (written by her husband) states that Russell had a mental breakdown in 1943. She did not act in films in 1944. Details are scant, but the book indicates that health problems and the deaths of a sister and a brother were major factors leading to her breakdown.[29] Russell had rheumatoid arthritis, and an arthritis research center at the University of California, San Francisco currently bears her name.
In 2009, the documentary film Life Is a Banquet: The Life of Rosalind Russell, narrated by Kathleen Turner, was shown at film festivals across the U.S. and on some PBS stations.
তিনি পাঁচটি গোল্ডেন গ্লোব পুরস্কারের মনোনয়ন হতে পাঁচটি পুরস্কারই অর্জন করেন। এছাড়া তিনি চারবার শ্রেষ্ঠ অভিনেত্রী বিভাগে একাডেমি পুরস্কারের মনোনয়ন লাভ করেন।
১৯৫৩ সালে তিনি ব্রডওয়ে মঞ্চে ওয়ান্ডারফুল টাউন মঞ্চনাটকে অভিনয় করে সঙ্গীতধর্মী নাটকে শ্রেষ্ঠ অভিনেত্রী বিভাগে টনি পুরস্কার লাভ করেন.
===========¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥=============
No comments:
Post a Comment