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Ruth Hussey

Highest Rated: 100% The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Lowest Rated: 33% The Great Gatsby (1949)

Birthday: Oct 30, 1911

Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

This MGM contract player of the late 1930s and early 40s played some leads, but mostly supporting parts, usually as a sophisticated, knowing women or vixen. Ruth Hussey got her best shot as the cynical photographer in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), for which she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She also starred opposite Ralph Bellamy on Broadway in "State of the Union" (1945).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 93% The Philadelphia Story Watchlist
100% 67% Northwest Passage
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95% 80% The Uninvited
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94% 87% The Women
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86% 85% Another Thin Man
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60% 50% Madame X
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40% 25% Susan and God
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33% 41% The Great Gatsby
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Pierre of the Plains
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Married Bachelor
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Ruth Hussey

Ruth Hussey H.M. PULHAM, ESQ., Ruth Hussey, Robert Young, 1941 MARINE RAIDERS, Ruth Hussey, 1944 NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, 1940 RICH MAN POOR GIRL, Ruth Hussey, Lew Ayres, Robert Young, 1938 STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER, Ruth Hussey, Clifton Webb, 1952, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright ANOTHER THIN MAN, (top) Ruth Hussey, Virginia Grey, Muriel Hutchinson, (middle) Tom Neal, Horace McMahon, (bottom) Don Costello, Abner Biberman, 1939 LOUISA, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Hussey, 1950 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, Ruth Hussey, 1940 FLIGHT COMMAND, Ruth Hussey, Robert Taylor, 1940 View more photos

Filmography

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All My Darling Daughters' Anniversary 1973 Maggie Cartwright Actor Resurrection of Broncho Billy 50% 1970 Voice The Facts of Life 60% 1960 Mary Gilbert Actor The Lady Wants Mink 1953 Nora Connors Actor Stars and Stripes Forever 78% 1952 Jennie Sousa Actor Woman of the North Country 1952 Christine Powell Actor That's My Boy 31% 1951 Ann Jackson Actor Hill Number One 62% 1951 Mary Actor Louisa 1950 Meg Norton Actor Mr. Music 43% 1950 Lorna Marvis Actor The Great Gatsby 33% 41% 1949 Jordan Baker Actor I, Jane Doe 1948 Eve Meredith Curtis Actor Bedside Manner 1945 Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD Actor Marine Raiders 1944 Lt. Ellen Foster Actor The Uninvited 95% 80% 1944 Pamela Fitzgerald Actor Tender Comrade 38% 1943 Barbara Thomas Actor Tennessee Johnson 100% 1942 Eliza McCardle Johnson Actor Pierre of the Plains 1942 Daisy Denton Actor H.M. Pulham, Esq. 66% 1941 Cordelia "Kay" Motford Pulham Actor Married Bachelor 1941 Norma Haven Actor Our Wife 1941 Professor Susan Drake Actor Free and Easy 1941 Martha Gray Actor Northwest Passage 100% 67% 1940 Elizabeth Browne Actor The Philadelphia Story 100% 93% 1940 Liz Imbrie Actor Flight Command 40% 1940 Lorna Gary Actor
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