Josephine Hull

Josephine Hull

Birth : 1877-01-03, Newtonville, Massachusetts, U.S.

Death : 1957-03-12

History

Josephine Hull (born January 3, reportedly 1886, but probably 1883  – died March 12, 1957) was an American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Harvey, a role she also created on the Broadway stage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josephine Hull, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

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Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull

Movies

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
The Lady from Texas
Miss Birdie Wheeler
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Harvey
Veta Louise Simmons
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Aunt Abby Brewster
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Careless Lady
Aunt Cora
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
After Tomorrow
Mrs. Piper
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?