Actor
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 fo ...

Known For
Acting
1973 -- My Darling Daughters' Anniversary | Maggie Cartwright
1970 -- The Resurrection of Broncho Billy | Voice Over
1960 -- The Facts of Life | Mary Gilbert
1953 -- The Lady Wants Mink | Nora Connors
1952 -- Stars and Stripes Forever | Jennie Sousa
1952 -- Woman of the North Country | Christine Powell
1951 -- That's My Boy | Ann Jackson
1951 -- Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration | Mary
1950 -- Mr. Music | Lorna Marvis
1950 -- Louisa | Meg Norton
1949 -- The Great Gatsby | Jordan Baker
1948 -- I, Jane Doe | Eve Meredith Curtis
1945 -- Her Favorite Patient | Dr. Hedy Fredericks, MD
1944 -- Marine Raiders | Lt. Ellen Foster
1944 -- Tender Comrade | Barbara Thomas
1944 -- The Uninvited | Pamela Fitzgerald
1942 -- Tennessee Johnson | Eliza McCardle Johnson
1942 -- Pierre of the Plains | Daisy Denton
1942 -- Soaring Stars | Herself
1941 -- H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Cordelia 'Kay' Motford Pulham
1941 -- Married Bachelor | Norma Haven
1941 -- Our Wife | Professor Susan Drake
1941 -- Free and Easy | Martha Gray
1940 -- Flight Command | Lorna Gray
1940 -- The Philadelphia Story | Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
1940 -- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self
1940 -- Susan and God | Charlotte
1940 -- Northwest Passage | Elizabeth Browne
1939 -- Another Thin Man | Dorothy Waters
1939 -- Fast and Furious | Lily Cole
1939 -- Blackmail | Helen Ingram
1939 -- The Women | Miss Wattson
1939 -- Maisie | Sybil Ames
1939 -- Within the Law | Mary Turner
1939 -- Honolulu | Eve
1938 -- Spring Madness | Kate McKim
1938 -- Time Out for Murder | Peggy Norton, victim
1938 -- Marie Antoinette | Duchess de Polignac (uncredited)
1938 -- Rich Man, Poor Girl | Joan Thayer
1938 -- Hold That Kiss | Nadine Piermont
1938 -- Judge Hardy's Children | Margaret Lee
1938 -- Man-Proof | Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)
1937 -- Madame X | Annette
1937 -- Big City | Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
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