Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Peggy Cass won. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Rosalind Russell was nominated but did not win.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, "America's Oldest Theatrical Organization," has named Rosalind ... Miss. Russell has started in more that 10 movies, including "Auntie Mame," "My Sister Eileen ...

Like the play, a too-cute intercontinental switch on Abie’s Irish Rose, the film tells the story of Bertha Jacoby (Rosalind Russell ... than skill to turn Auntie Mame into Molly Goldberg.