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...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...
...stormy crossing. Says Brisson: "I'd hear those screaming voices. I couldn't stand it. After the 12th or 13th day, I went in to see it. I saw every other performance until we docked in New York. By then, I liked it. I particularly like Rosalind. 'There's a girl I've got to meet,' I said to myself...
...Smile for Gary. In Hollywood, Brisson moved in with his friend Gary Grant, who was making His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell. One night when Grant had a date with Ros, he brought Brisson along. Ros says: "I opened my door with a big smile for Gary, and then I saw this other fellow with him. 'Great!' I thought. 'I have a date with Gary Grant and he brings a chaperon...
Freddy Brisson, who went to work as a Hollywood agent, is resigned to being introduced as "Rosalind Russell's husband." Before they were married, he was usually introduced as his father's brother, because Singer Carl Brisson feared that having a grown son might handicap his career...
Never-Never Land. Rosalind's son, Lance, was born in 1943, and the following year she had a nervous breakdown. "I just got up one morning, and fell in a heap." The collapse put Ros in the hospital for three weeks and "slowed me up long enough to realize that after a wonderful career you either retire or go on to something you've never undertaken before. I was forced to meditate on the never-never land I was living in-it's part climate, part bank account, part self." Even faced by these unaccustomed self-doubts...