Ruth Carol Hussey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Drama, Ruth Hussey's first show-business job was as a fashion commentator on a local radio station. She journeyed to New York City, where she was signed as a model by the world-famous Powers agency. She obtained some stage roles with touring companies and was noticed by MGM, which signed her and ...
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Single Performance
Movies
The Philadelphia Story, The Uninvited, The Women, Flight Command, H. M. Pulham, Esq., The Facts of Life, Tennessee Johnson, Another Thin Man, Susan and God, Bedside Manner, That's My Boy, Tender Comrade, Stars and Stripes Forever, Fast and Furious, Rich Man Poor Girl, Judge Hardy's Children, The Gre...
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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I stayed out of sight I guess. I probably didn't seek work but then producers didn't seek me out either.
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Fact
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Appeared two times (both in minor roles) in Norma Shearer films: the uncredited role of the Duchess De Polignac in Marie Antoinette (1938), and as Miss Watts (Mr. Haines' secretary) in The Women (1939).
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She was a Republican who supported Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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Although a Democrat, she did vote for Republican Ronald Reagan during the 1980 and 1984 presidential election due in part that she was strongly dissatisfied with the presidency of the Democratic Jimmy Carter. She voted for him in 1976 and found out quickly that he "wasn't up to the job" as she'd believed.
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Is interred with her husband at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.
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Graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University in 1933.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 261-263. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
$8 Million
