1. Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.
16 Facts About Ruth Hussey
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Ruth Hussey was later known as Ruth Carol O'Rourke, her stepfather's surname.
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Ten years later, her mother, Julia Corbett Ruth Hussey, married a family friend, William O'Rourke, who had worked at the family's mail-order silver enterprise.
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Ruth Hussey had an older brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Betty.
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Ruth Hussey did not win roles for any of the plays for which she had auditioned at Pembroke.
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Ruth Hussey received a degree in theatre from the University of Michigan and worked as an actress with a summer-stock company in Michigan for two seasons.
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Ruth Hussey wrote ad copy for a local clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon.
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Ruth Hussey was encouraged by a friend to audition for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse, but the theater director rejected her, saying that the roles were cast only out of New York City.
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Ruth Hussey quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles.
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In 1946, Ruth Hussey starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union.
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Ruth Hussey played Jean Arthur's role of Miriam Starrett in the 1955 Lux Radio Theater presentation of Shane, playing alongside the film's original stars Ladd and Heflin.
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Ruth Hussey's husband died in 2002 shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary.
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Ruth Hussey won an Academy Award for producing the live-action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy.
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Ruth Hussey was active in Catholic charities, was noted for painting in watercolors and was a lifelong Democrat although she voted for Republican Thomas Dewey in 1944 and for Hollywood friend and former costar Ronald Reagan in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.
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Ruth Hussey died on April 19,2005 at the age of 93 from complications from an appendectomy.
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Ruth Hussey is interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.