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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 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 Harvey (1950). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (Accadde una notte (1934)), Loretta Young (La moglie celebre (1947)), Judy Holliday (Nata ieri (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Vacanze romane (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Fiore di cactus (1969)), Glenda Jackson (Un tocco di classe (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Io e Annie (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Una volta ho incontrato un miliardario (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Stregata dalla luna (1987)), Cher (Stregata dalla luna (1987)), Jessica Tandy (A spasso con Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (La leggenda del re pescatore (1991)), Marisa Tomei (Mio cugino Vincenzo (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Pallottole su Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (La dea dell'amore (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (Qualcosa è cambiato (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Il lato positivo - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).

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

Sister-in-law of actor Henry Hull.

Aunt of producer Shelley Hull.