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Josephine Hull

Josephine Hull, American actress (died 1957)

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Born
January 3, 1877
Died
March 12, 1957
Zodiac sign
Capricorn
Birth year
1877

About Josephine Hull

Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-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 (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood. Hull then appeared in the screen version of Harvey (1950), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Josephine Hull timeline

  1. Hull then appeared in the screen version of Harvey (1950), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  2. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage.

The world when Josephine Hull was born

Josephine Hull was born in 1877. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction ends — federal troops leave the South
  • Technology milestoneThomas Edison invents the phonograph
  • Notable inventionPhonograph — talking machine
  • World population~1.57B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRutherford B. Hayes
  • U.S. population44.2M

1877 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Josephine Hull's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18772026
Population44.2M341 million

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