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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.

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Filmography (Movies)

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

Character:Maggie Cartwright

Release Date:07/11/1973

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy

Character:Voice Over

Release Date:11/06/1970

The Facts of Life

Character:Mary Gilbert

Release Date:14/11/1960

The Lady Wants Mink

Character:Nora Connors

Release Date:29/03/1953

Stars and Stripes Forever

Character:Jennie Sousa

Release Date:22/12/1952

Woman of the North Country

Character:Christine Powell

Release Date:23/07/1952

That's My Boy

Character:Ann Jackson

Release Date:31/05/1951

Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration

Character:Mary

Release Date:25/03/1951

Mr. Music

Character:Lorna Marvis

Release Date:08/12/1950

Louisa

Character:Meg Norton

Release Date:31/05/1950

The Great Gatsby

Character:Jordan Baker

Release Date:06/06/1949

I, Jane Doe

Character:Eve Meredith Curtis

Release Date:25/05/1948

Bedside Manner

Character:Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD

Release Date:22/06/1945

Marine Raiders

Character:Lt. Ellen Foster

Release Date:11/07/1944

Tender Comrade

Character:Barbara Thomas

Release Date:30/05/1944

The Uninvited

Character:Pamela Fitzgerald

Release Date:24/02/1944

Tennessee Johnson

Character:Eliza McCardle Johnson

Release Date:01/12/1942

Pierre of the Plains

Character:Daisy Denton

Release Date:29/07/1942

Soaring Stars

Character:Herself

Release Date:25/04/1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Character:Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham

Release Date:04/12/1941

Married Bachelor

Character:Norma Haven

Release Date:16/10/1941

Our Wife

Character:Professor Susan Drake

Release Date:20/08/1941

Free and Easy

Character:Martha Gray

Release Date:28/02/1941

Flight Command

Character:Lorna Gray

Release Date:27/12/1940

The Philadelphia Story

Character:Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie

Release Date:05/12/1940

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Character:Self

Release Date:24/10/1940

Susan and God

Character:Charlotte

Release Date:07/06/1940

Northwest Passage

Character:Elizabeth Browne

Release Date:23/02/1940

Another Thin Man

Character:Dorothy Waters

Release Date:17/11/1939

Fast and Furious

Character:Lily Cole

Release Date:06/10/1939

Blackmail

Character:Helen Ingram

Release Date:08/09/1939

The Women

Character:Miss Wattson

Release Date:01/09/1939

Maisie

Character:Sybil Ames

Release Date:22/06/1939

Within the Law

Character:Mary Turner

Release Date:17/03/1939

Honolulu

Character:Eve

Release Date:03/02/1939

Spring Madness

Character:Kate McKim

Release Date:11/11/1938

Time Out for Murder

Character:Peggy Norton, victim

Release Date:25/09/1938

Marie Antoinette

Character:Duchess de Polignac (uncredited)

Release Date:26/08/1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Character:Joan Thayer

Release Date:12/08/1938

Hold That Kiss

Character:Nadine Piermont

Release Date:13/05/1938

Judge Hardy's Children

Character:Margaret Lee

Release Date:26/03/1938

Man-Proof

Character:Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)

Release Date:07/01/1938

Madame X

Character:Annette

Release Date:01/10/1937

Big City

Character:Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)

Release Date:03/09/1937

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