Ruth Hussey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1911-10-30 (94 years old)

Deathday

2005-04-19

Place of Birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Ruth Hussey

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 th...

Acting

1940

The Philadelphia Story

as Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie

1939

The Women

as Miss Wattson

1938

Man-Proof

as Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)

1939

Within the Law

as Mary Turner

1939

Another Thin Man

as Dorothy Waters

1945

Her Favorite Patient

as Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD

1952

1940

Northwest Passage

as Elizabeth Browne

1940

Susan and God

as Charlotte

1937

Madame X

as Annette

1944

The Uninvited

as Pamela Fitzgerald

1948

I, Jane Doe

as Eve Meredith Curtis

1960

The Facts of Life

as Mary Gilbert

1939

Maisie

as Sybil Ames

1942

Tennessee Johnson

as Eliza McCardle Johnson

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Jordan Baker

1951

That's My Boy

as Ann Jackson

1941

Our Wife

as Professor Susan Drake

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

as Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham

1940

Flight Command

as Lorna Gray

1944

Tender Comrade

as Barbara Thomas

1939

Blackmail

as Helen Ingram

1950

Mr. Music

as Lorna Marvis

1939

Fast and Furious

as Lily Cole

1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

as Joan Thayer

1944

Marine Raiders

as Lt. Ellen Foster

1973

1938

Hold That Kiss

as Nadine Piermont

1938

Spring Madness

as Kate McKim

1938

Judge Hardy's Children

as Margaret Lee

1939

Honolulu

as Eve

1953

The Lady Wants Mink

as Nora Connors

1941

Married Bachelor

as Norma Haven

1942

Pierre of the Plains

as Daisy Denton

1941

Free and Easy

as Martha Gray

1942

Soaring Stars

as Herself

1950

Louisa

as Meg Norton

1937

Big City

as Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)

1952

Woman of the North Country

as Christine Powell

1938

Time Out for Murder

as Peggy Norton, victim

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Duchess de Polignac (uncredited)

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