You know, it just occurred to me that the reason I'm not as crazy as the rest of you are about Jimmy Stewart is because his character was so cluelessly mean to Ruth Hussey's Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story. Yes, this is unfair, but she's just that good, I guess. Or he's really like that.
Today is Ruth Hussey's 100th Birthday, born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 30, 1911. I can count the number of pictures I've seen her in on one hand and a couple of toes, but she makes a big impression in all of them. Make it easy on yourself and watch the easiest to get: The Women (1939) or The Philadelphia Story (1940), which also grants you a double dose of Virginia Weidler.
Meanwhile, here she is in a strange episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called "Mink" (1956).
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Seester
10/30/2011 4:30pm
The whole play is about kicking the feet out from under the cool women. I know what you mean about Macaulay Connor, but the one I really despise is Tracy's father. Jerk.
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Carl
11/13/2011 6:40pm
A very worthy birthday mention. If I may add one more film to the suggestions of The Women and The Philadelphia Story...The Uninvited (1944). A good old-fashioned ghost story.
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