Overview
Born : January 3, 1877 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA
Died : March 12, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA (cerebral hemorrhage)
Birth Name : Mary Josephine Sherwood
Height : 5' 2¼" (1.58 m)
Josephine Sherwood changed her name after wedding stage entertainer Shelly Hull in 1910. She concentrated on show at Radcliffe College - - no doubt stirring up a lot of consternation for her folks - - and first dealt with the stage in a stock organization in Boston. Her better half kicked the bucket in 1919, matured 35, of Spanish flu. Josephine left the stage for a considerable length of time and never re-wedded however continued her dramatic vocation with restored energy from 1923. Short and dumpy of height and with an unmistakably fragile conveyance, Josephine had an irrefutable stage presence as well as wonderful planning. On Broadway, she shifted back and forth among parody and dramatization. Probably her best execution was as an individual from the mild Vanderhof family in You Can't Take It with You (1938) (the film adaptation by Frank Capra came out two years after the fact).
She is generally affectionately associated with two permanent dramatic establishments which she would later repeat on screen. In the first place, she was the pleasantly maniacal Abby Brewster in the joke 'Arsenic and Old Lace', who, with her sister Martha (Jean Adair), begins harming desolate elderly people men with elderberry wine. The play ran on Broadway for three seasons (1941-44) and was a gigantic famous and basic hit with 1444 exhibitions. The subsequent 1944 movie was a similarly reverberating achievement and became one of Warner Brothers three greatest lucrative movies of the year. Josephine's second significant job was that of Veta Louise Simmons, unendingly perplexed, overwhelmed sister of Elwood P. Dowd (whose dearest companion is a fanciful bunny) in Harvey (1950). This wonderfully eccentric play by Mary Chase was a much more prominent raving success, totalling 1775 exhibitions between November 1944 and January 1949. Once more, Josephine repeated her job on screen in 1950 and deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress that year. Pundit Bosley Crowther remarked "Josephine Hull plays Elwood's sister with such humorous disarray and ignorant worry that she brings very as a lot to the image as does Mr.Stewart - or his buddy to be sure...and it would be a miserable screen form that didn't contain her stout casing, her bird-brained objecting and rippling and her other-worldly tenderness of soul" (New York Times, December 22 1950). Scarcely astonishing, then, that with such countless years spent on the stage, Josephine Hull's screen profession was not especially productive. She even got to first charging in the featuring job of the dramatic form of 'The Solid Gold Cadillac' (1953-55), as Laura Partridge (later shot with Judy Holliday in the number one spot).
Josephine kicked the bucket in New York in March 1957 of a mind discharge, matured 80.
Sister by marriage of entertainer Henry Hull.
Has had an effective long term profession on Broadway prior to getting her jobs "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Harvey" from the stage to the screen.
Is buried with her better half in the Newton Cemetery, Newtonville, MA.
Auntie of maker Shelley Hull.
Graduate of Radcliffe College (1899).
Was the 34th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Harvey (1950) at The 23rd Academy Awards on March 29, 1951.
Is one of 25 entertainers to have won an Academy Award for their exhibition in a satire; hers being for Harvey (1950). The others, in sequential request, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
Despite the fact that she played James Stewart's sister in Harvey (1950), she was 31 years his senior, in actuality.
In her discourse after she got her "Oscar", she gaze upward and said thanks to Harvey.
List of Josephine Hull Movies
- The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
- Lights Out (TV Series)
- Betty Crocker Star Matinee (TV Series)
- Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- The Lady from Texas
- Harvey
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Little Women (TV Series)
- The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Careless Lady
- After Tomorrow
- The Bishop's Candlesticks (Short) & Many more....
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