Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday.

Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Rosalind Russell p.383

• At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

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

• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

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• When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.