Editing Rosalind Russell (section)

===Later career===
In the early 1940s, Russell starred in the [[Romantic comedy|rom-coms]] ''[[The Feminine Touch (1941 film)|The Feminine Touch]]'' (1941) and ''[[Take a Letter, Darling]]'' (1942). In [[Alexander Hall]]'s comedy film ''[[My Sister Eileen (1942 film)|My Sister Eileen]]'' (1942), she played older sister Ruth Sherwood. She received her first [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award]] nomination for ''My Sister Eileen''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rosalind Russell - Awards |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751426/awards/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> She then starred in  ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946), portraying real-life [[Nursing management#Charge nurse|Sister]] [[Elizabeth Kenny]], an [[Australia|Australian]] bush nurse who fought to help [[polio]] victims. She won her first [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]] and received her second [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award]] nomination. In ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra (film)|Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1947), she plays a young [[New Englanders|New Englander]] who exacts vengeance after the murder of her father. She won her second [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]] and got her third [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award]] nomination; she was highly favored to win, to the point that Russell actually began to rise from her seat just before the winner's name was called. However, it was [[Loretta Young]], and not Russell, who was named Best Actress, for her performance in ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Farmer's Daughter |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/345406/the-farmers-daughter#overview |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Turner Classic Movies |language=en}}</ref> She followed up with the murder mystery ''[[The Velvet Touch]]'' (1948).

[[File:Rosalind-Russell-TIME-1953.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rosalind Russell in ''[[Wonderful Town]]'', on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (March 30, 1953)]]

Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her [[Tony Award]]-winning performance in the musical ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' (1953), a musical version of her successful film of a decade earlier, ''My Sister Eileen''. Russell reprised her starring role for a 1958 television special.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

[[File:RozRussellAuntieMame.jpg|thumb|upright|Rosalind Russell (left) and [[Polly Rowles]] in the original Broadway production of ''Auntie Mame'' (1957)]]

Perhaps her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage comedy ''[[Auntie Mame#Adaptations|Auntie Mame]]'' (based on a [[Patrick Dennis]] novel) as well as the [[Auntie Mame (film)|1958 film version]], in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphaned nephew comes to live with her. When asked with which role she was most closely identified, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!". For the film version, she won the [[Laurel Awards|Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance]] and her third [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe]], and received her first [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA]] nomination and fourth [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award]] nomination. For the stage version, she received a nomination for the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]. Patrick Dennis dedicated his second ''Auntie Mame'' novel, ''[[Around the World with Auntie Mame]],'' to "the one and only Rosalind Russell" in 1958.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Passafiume|first1=Andrea|title=Pop Culture 101: Auntie Mame|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/615715|website=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=May 28, 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031051/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/615715%7C0/Pop-Culture-101-Auntie-Mame.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

She continued to appear in movies through the mid-1960s, including ''[[Picnic (1955 film)|Picnic]]'' (1955), ''[[A Majority of One]]'' (1961), ''[[Five Finger Exercise]]'' (1962), ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' (1962; winning her fifth [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe]]), ''[[The Trouble with Angels (film)|The Trouble with Angels]]'' (1966), and its sequel ''[[Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows]]'' (1968). Russell was the logical choice for reprising her role as Auntie Mame when the musical version ''[[Mame (musical)|Mame]]'' was set for a production on Broadway in 1966, but she declined for health reasons.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

In addition to her acting career, Russell (under the name C.A. McKnight) also wrote the story for the film ''[[The Unguarded Moment (film)|The Unguarded Moment]]'' (1956), a story of sexual harassment starring [[Esther Williams]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stafford|first1=Jeff|title=The Unguarded Moment|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/382074|website=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=May 28, 2017|archive-date=March 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311021801/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/382966%7C382074/The-Unguarded-Moment.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Russell used the pen name C.A. McKnight again in 1971, when she was credited as screenwriter for adapting the novel ''[[Emily Pollifax#The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966)|The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax]]'' into the screenplay for ''[[Mrs. Pollifax-Spy]]'', in which she also starred.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allmovie.com/work/mrs-pollifax-spy-103120|title=Mrs. Pollifax – Spy (1971) – Leslie Martinson – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related|publisher=Allmovie}}</ref> It was Russell's last big screen role.