Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January , â€" March , ) was an
American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She
had a successful -year career on stage while taking some of her better
known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for the movie Harvey (), a role she originally played on the
Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.Hull
was born January , , in Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of four
children born to William H. Sherwood and Mary Elizabeth ("Minnie")
Tewkesbury, but would later shave years off her true age. She attended
the New England Conservatory of Music and Radcliffe College, both in
the Boston area.Hull made her stage debut in stock in , and after some
years as a chorus girl and touring stock player, she married actor
Shelley Hull (the elder brother of actor Henry Hull) in . After her
husband's death as a young man, the actress retired until , when she
returned to acting using her married name, Josephine Hull. The couple
had no children.She had her first major stage success in George
Kelly's Pulitzer-winning Craig's Wife in . Kelly wrote a role
especially for her in his next play, Daisy Mayme, which also was
staged in . She continued working in New York theater throughout the
s. In the s and s, Hull appeared in three Broadway hits, as a batty
matriarch in You Can't Take It with You (), as a homicidal old lady in
Arsenic and Old Lace (), and in Harvey (). The plays all had long
runs, and took up ten years of Hull's career. Her last Broadway play,
The Solid Gold Cadillac (â€"), was later made into a film version with
the much younger Judy Holliday in the role.[citation needed]
American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She
had a successful -year career on stage while taking some of her better
known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for the movie Harvey (), a role she originally played on the
Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.Hull
was born January , , in Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of four
children born to William H. Sherwood and Mary Elizabeth ("Minnie")
Tewkesbury, but would later shave years off her true age. She attended
the New England Conservatory of Music and Radcliffe College, both in
the Boston area.Hull made her stage debut in stock in , and after some
years as a chorus girl and touring stock player, she married actor
Shelley Hull (the elder brother of actor Henry Hull) in . After her
husband's death as a young man, the actress retired until , when she
returned to acting using her married name, Josephine Hull. The couple
had no children.She had her first major stage success in George
Kelly's Pulitzer-winning Craig's Wife in . Kelly wrote a role
especially for her in his next play, Daisy Mayme, which also was
staged in . She continued working in New York theater throughout the
s. In the s and s, Hull appeared in three Broadway hits, as a batty
matriarch in You Can't Take It with You (), as a homicidal old lady in
Arsenic and Old Lace (), and in Harvey (). The plays all had long
runs, and took up ten years of Hull's career. Her last Broadway play,
The Solid Gold Cadillac (â€"), was later made into a film version with
the much younger Judy Holliday in the role.[citation needed]
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