Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

up its mind about, the gorgeous
Hussey is doing all right.
In fact, Ruth Hussey is one OF
the few young ladies of the screen
we knew who does not regularly
pound her fist on an executives
desk, gnash her teeth and scream,
I am being typed. You are wreck
ing my career!'
Just take look at the record.
Five ye3rs ago she made her film
debut in a straight romantic role
opposite Robert Young in film
titled, Rich Man, Poor Girl Since
then she's played sophisticated
wives. sweet, wholesome girls the
hero left behind, brittle come
diennes, a woman scientist, psy-
chopathic case, romantic roles, ana
the hero's little sister. Why, she
even played a barmaid in a sage
brush thriller Pierre of the Plains
She just completed another
straight romantic part, with Pat
O'Brien, in RKO's Marine Raid
ers"-'a little slush is good now and
then" she says-and now she's re-
firing from the screen fer lew
months to play different klnd OF
role. AS the wife of Lieut.. Robert
Iongnecker, she has date with
the stork in August.
Reason Ruth Hussey hasn't been
typed by Hollywood's sometimes
strange casting methods is that
she hasn't fought against them,
I believe" she says, lin SWIM
ming with the current instead CT
against it. I've never worked my
self into a frenzy to get a certain
role. I've always believed in dong
the best you can do at the moment
I've never been disappointed IN not
getting a role I'd like to play-lVe
always gone along on the theory
that a better che must be coming
! up"
GETTING ACQUAINTED
Now that she's served her ap.
premiership in an assortment OF
roles. Ruth would like TO concen-
trate on combining COMEDY ana
drama. you know-real people.
After all, comedians aren't always
funny. And you don't have TO go
through a whole picture weeping
all over the place"
Up until a couple cf years ago.
Ruth Husscy admits she had a
reputation for being snooty: i
guess it was because I was lone
some-my family and friends were
in the east--and because dldn
understand Hollywood"
It all started, she gueases, When
she first arrived in filmtoWn ano
someone asked her how she llkeo
the place. Ruth, who halls from Pre-
yidence, r. l., said she thought II
was terrible, with some cracks
about the sun beating down on you
all the time, "unsocial' people, ane
all the scenery in pastel shades.
Give me rugged New England any
time" she said.
Well, her ti-Chamber OF Com
merce comments wound up IN prin
and the M-G-M publicity depart
ment decided something had to b.
done with ''the difficult MIS-
Hussey."
UNUSUAL LADY
every time I was interviewed
after that" she said, the publicit!
department sent along someone II
hold my hand. When I was asket
whether I liked my current role
or what I thought CT Hollywood
the press agent would kick me under
the table and interrupt with Why
lust yesterday Ruth told me nov
wonderful blah-blah -blah-blah.
It wasn't long, though, before M
GIN dispensed with the pres
agent convoy as Ruth became ac'
climated to the town and its people
AS you probably have guessed
by new, Ruth HuSsey is very
unusual and uninhibited young
lady. Even the way Hollywood
discovered her was unusual.
She was playing the role OF th'
street-walker in the road ccm'
pany CT Dead End" in Los An
geles. M-G-M talent scout Billy
Grady sat in The audience ont
night and offered her screen tes
the next day Later, when she
asked him what impressed hin
the most, Grady said: "You were
the fi,st screen actress I'd eve