Hussey, Ruth

▪ 2006

Ruth Carol O'Rourke 

      American actress (b. Oct. 30, 1911, Providence, R.I.—d. April 19, 2005, Newbury Park, Calif.), appeared onstage, on television, and in more than 40 films, usually in roles that called for a witty, sophisticated, and worldly-wise beauty. She received a best supporting actress Academy Award nomination for her best-known role, the quick-with-a-quip photographer from Spy magazine in The Philadelphia Story (1940), and among her other notable films were H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) and The Uninvited (1944).

* * *