Biography: Rosalind Russell |
A witty and stylish lead actress of stage and screen, Russell tended to play successful career women who were skilled in repartee. She trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, then began her stage career in her early '20s. She debuted... more
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)
Tags: Mystery Comedy Black Comedy
Length: 86min
A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this lack comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. Wealthy Madame Rosepettle (Rosalind Russell) and 25-year-old Jonathan (Robert Morse)...
Tags: Film, TV & Radio
Length: 59min
Rosalind Russell may be best known for her iconic roles in films such as The Women, Auntie Mame, and His Girl Friday, but the star shined off screen as well. Life is a Banquet explores the career and philanthropic work of the four-time Oscar nominee,...
The Trouble With Angels (1966)
Cast: Gypsy Rose Lee
Tags: Religious Comedy Family Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 112min
The Trouble With Angels opens on the first day of school for a new batch of students at St. Francis Academy, run by a very strong-willed Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). She is used to having things her way, but she may have met her match in the...
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
Cast: Milton Berle Binnie Barnes
Tags: Comedy Religious Comedy
Length: 94min
Mother Simplicia (Rosalind Russell) is the head nun at an all-girl school. Aided by the young Sister George (Stella Stevens), the two try to convert the wayward girls to prim and proper ladies with a solid religious foundation. Rosabelle (Susan St....
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 98min
Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play +A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe Heriat, but the indirect source for all three versions is Shakespeare's +King Lear. Rosalind Russell has the Lear part, here...
Cast: Alec Guinness Mervyn LeRoy
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance Drama
Length: 149min
This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing into the nature of prejudice. Rosalind Russell plays Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow living in Brooklyn whose daughter Alice (Madlyn...
Cast: Jack Hawkins
Length: 109min
A distinguished cast highlights this film adaptation of a stage drama by Peter Shaffer. Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins) is a self-made businessman incapable of expressing his emotions or compromising with others; his wife Louise (Rosalind Russell)...
Cast: Forrest Tucker
Tags: Sophisticated Comedy Comedy
Length: 161min
Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the...
Cast: Natalie Wood Karl Malden
Tags: Musical Musical Drama
Length: 144min
This Stephen Sondheim/Jules Styne/Arthur Laurents musical comedy Gypsy had been a Broadway smash with Ethel Merman in the lead. Based on the autobiography of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, it centers on the antics of Mama Rose (here played by...
Cast: William Holden
Tags: Americana Drama Romance Rural Drama
Length: 113min
One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor...
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