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Bleeding Toes. Rosalind's tireless energy was bred in the bone. She was born 45 years ago in Waterbury, Conn the fourth of seven children ("I'm the ham in the middle") of Clara and James Edward Russell, a prosperous lawyer. She was named, not for Shakespeare's heroine, but for the S.S. Rosalind, a boat that once carried Father & Mother Russell on a vacation voyage to Nova Scotia...
Pinochle Money. When Rosalind was 19, her father died. He left an estate of close to $500,000 and some stern injunctions to his children: they could have as much education as they wanted-but once graduated, they would get no money for three years. Rosalind still thinks it a wonderful will: "My father was a self-made man who'd worked his way through Yale Law School. He didn't want us to sit around, drink cocktails, play bridge, and wait for husbands. We had to get going...
...going in the direction of Manhattan. She left Marymount after her sophomore year and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, explaining glibly to her puzzled mother that the voice training would help her to become a teacher. Graduating in the spring of 1929, Rosalind was impressive enough in the school's production of The Last of Mrs Cheyney to interest a badly coordinated pair of producers from a summer theater at Saranac Lake. One partner hoped to get her for $40 a week, but Ros talked the other partner into an offer of $150, and hastily accepted...
...Nedda Harrigan (now married to Producer-Director Joshua Logan). She also had time to investigate a phenomenon that had been puzzling her for some time: why, she wanted to know, did men swarm around girls like her two friends and her sister Clara, and not around a girl like Rosalind Russell? "What do I do wrong?" she asked Charlotte Winters. After a thoughtful pause, Charlotte replied: "Ros, you just talk too much...
...Rosalind's best bit of acting was done off-camera. Dissatisfied with her treatment at Universal, she wasted no time brooding. M-G-M offered her a part in Evelyn Prentice, but first she had to find some way of getting a release from Universal. Rosalind made an appointment with Carl Laemmle Jr., then Universal's general manager. Because she had been told that he liked beautiful women, she put on an old dress ("It had a wide boat-neck that showed all my collarbones"), greased her hair with Vaseline, wore an unbecoming hat and dirty white shoes...