10 Facts About Josephine Hull

Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who was a director of plays.

Josephine Hull had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.

Josephine Hull won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey, a role she originally played on the Broadway stage.

Josephine Hull had her first major stage success in George Kelly's Pulitzer-winning Craig's Wife in 1926.

Josephine Hull continued working in New York theater throughout the 1920s.

Josephine Hull made only seven films, beginning in 1927 with a small part in the Clara Bow feature Get Your Man, followed by The Bishop's Candlesticks in 1929.

Josephine Hull missed out on recreating her You Can't Take It With You role in 1938, as she was still onstage with the show.

Josephine Hull played Aunt Abby who, along with Jean Adair as Aunt Martha, was one of the two Brewster sisters in the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane.

Josephine Hull then appeared in the screen version of Harvey, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Josephine Hull died on March 12,1957, aged 80, from a cerebral hemorrhage.