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By Ed Sullivan
For all her well bred gentility, Rosalind Russell knows what she wants and can fight like the very mischief to get it!
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upper left: Rosalind loves to ride and swim. Above: With Director George Cukor and Hedda Hopper on "The Women" set. Right: In England with the popular Robert Donat with whom she appeared in "The Citadel."
WHILE they were filming "The Women," at M-G-M, Director George Cukor kept stressing the necessity for realism. Time and again, Cukor told Rosalind Russell and Paulette Goddard that their hair-pulling match lacked authenticity. "When you kick her, Paulette," suggested the director, "put some oomph into your kick. Hurt her." Paulette, thus encouraged, in the next take hauled off and kicked Rosalind Russell directly on the shin. "That's better," said Cukor, encouragingly. "Not quite right, but better." He took the scene again. Miss Goddard landed another wellplaced kick on the Russell shinbone.
The next setup put the shoe on the other foot. Miss Russell was called upon to bite Paulette's leg as they struggled on the ground. For the behind-the-scenes records of Hollywood, let it be here stated that Rosahnd bit the Goddard calf so heartily that it bled.
The incident is interesting because it is a fair summation of Rosalind Russell's career. The girl from Waterbur3?,
Connecticut, well-bred and all that sort of thing, has succeeded in show business because when anyone figuratively kicked her in the shins, she literally always drew blood in the retort. In other words, Rosalind has never quit. She's been scared. She's been, at times, uncertain. But she's always managed to keep her chin up and muddle through. She's lost minor battles, but she has a habit of winning the major victories.
Her entire career served to steel her resolution. First, it was her mother's opposition she had to overcome in order to enroll at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. To the Connecticut mother of a family of daughters, the suggestion {Continued on page 74)
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