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American actress (1911–2005)

This article is about the American actress. For the British NHS administrator, see Ruth Hussey (medical administrator).

Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005)^[1][2] was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.

Early life

Hussey was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 30, 1911. She was later known as Ruth Carol O'Rourke, her stepfather's surname.^[3][4] Her father, George R. Hussey, died of the Spanish flu in 1918 when she was seven years old. Ten years later, her mother, Julia Corbett Hussey,^[5] married a family friend, William O'Rourke, who had worked at the family's mail-order silver enterprise.^[6] She had an older brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Betty.^[6]

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