Wissenswertes

Has had a successful 50 year career on Broadway before bringing her roles in "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Harvey" from the stage to the screen.

Although she played James Stewart's sister in Mein Freund Harvey (1950), she was 31 years his senior in real life.

In her speech after she got her "Oscar", she look up and thanked Harvey.

Graduate of Radcliffe College (1899).

Is interred with her husband in the Newton Cemetery, Newtonville, MA.

Is one of 25 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Mein Freund Harvey (1950). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (Es geschah in einer Nacht (1934)), Loretta Young (Die Farmerstochter (1947)), Judy Holliday (Die ist nicht von Gestern (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Ein Herz und eine Krone (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Die Kaktusblüte (1969)), Glenda Jackson (Mann, bist du Klasse! (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Der Stadtneurotiker (1977)), Maggie Smith (Das verrückte California Hotel (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin und Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Mondsüchtig (1987)), Cher (Mondsüchtig (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Miss Daisy und ihr Chauffeur (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (König der Fischer (1991)), Marisa Tomei (Mein Vetter Winnie (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Geliebte Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo: Blutiger Schnee (1996)), Helen Hunt (Besser geht's nicht (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings (2012)).

Was the 34th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mein Freund Harvey (1950) at The 23rd Academy Awards on March 29, 1951.

Sister-in-law of actor Henry Hull.

Aunt of producer Shelley Hull.