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Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30 1911 – April
19 2005) was an actress born in Providence, Rhode
Island|Providence, Rhode Island, United
States|USA.  She graduated from Pembroke College
(then the women's college) at Brown University in
1933 and continued to study drama at the
University of Michigan School of Drama. Ruth
Hussey's first show-business job was as a fashion
commentator on a local radio station. She
journeyed to New York City, where she was signed
as a model by the world-famous Powers agency. She
obtained some stage roles with touring companies
and was noticed by MGM, which signed her and with
whom she made her film debut in 1937. She quickly
became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually
playing sophisticated, worldly roles. She was
nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as a
cynical photographer and girlfriend of James
Stewart (actor)|James Stewart in The Philadelphia
Story. 

She also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight
Command (1940), Robert Young in H.M.Pulham Esq
(1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942),
Ray Milland in The Uninvited (film)|The Uninvited
(1944) and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949).
She soon focused her main energies on the stage,
however, and returned to the screen only
occasionally.  Her final major film role was in
The Facts of Life in 1960. She was married to the
talent agent and radio producer Charles
Longenecker, who died in 2002.

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