Her "boss lady" roles began with the part of reporter Hildy Johnson in Його дівчина П'ятниця (1940), through whose male lead, Cary Grant, she met her future husband, Grant's house-guest at the time. George Cukor told her to "play her as a freak". Knowing she was right for comedy, she tested five times for the role of Sylvia Fowler in The Women (1939). When she plead ignorance of Hollywood (while wearing her worst-fitting clothes), Universal released her and she signed with MGM for seven years.įor some time she was used in secondary roles and as a replacement threat to limit Myrna Loy's salary demands. Simultaneously, MGM tested her and made her a better offer. In 1934, with some stock company work and a little Broadway experience, she was tested and signed by Universal. Rosalind on which her parents had sailed, at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer.Īfter receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York, having convinced her mother that she intended to teach acting. The middle of seven children, she was named, not for the heroine of "As You Like It" but for the S.S.
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