Rosalind Russell may be best known for her iconic roles in films such as The Women, Auntie Mame, and His Girl Friday, but...
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2009
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It's nice to know that some of the greatest of the movie stars, while doing some of the most famous and best of Hollywood...
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1980
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1972
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A widow finds her life unbearably dull and so becomes a volunteer CIA agent. She is sent to Mexico City for her first...
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Screenwriter
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1971
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Mother Simplicia
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1968
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A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy...
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Mme. Rosepettle
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1967
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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Rosie Lord
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1967
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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...
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Mother Superior
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1966
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A distinguished cast highlights this film adaptation of a stage drama by Peter Shaffer. Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins) is...
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Louise Harrington
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1962
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Rose Hovick
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1962
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This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing...
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Mrs. Jacoby
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1961
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Mame Dennis
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1958
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Screen Story
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1956
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In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island,...
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Kim Halliday
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1955
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One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Rosemary Sydney
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1955
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Jo McBain
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1952
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A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
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Susan Middlecott
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1950
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Marsha Meredith
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1949
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Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway...
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Valerie Stanton
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1948
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Lavinia Mannon
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1947
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In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were...
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Janet Ames
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1947
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Elizabeth Kenny
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1946
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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Louise Randall Pierson
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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Carol Ainsley
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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Tonie Carter
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1943
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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Ruth Sherwood
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1942
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Take a Letter, Darling is from the "boss lady" school of 1940s comedies. Fred MacMurray is Darling (that's his last name), an...
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A.M. MacGregor
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1942
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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Julie Hathaway
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1941
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Cornelia Porter
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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Anya Von Duren
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1941
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This Thing Called Love extracts its laughs from the prehistoric concept of sexual frustration. Business partners...
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Ann Winters
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1940
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Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne go through their customary farcical paces in the formula romantic comedy Hired Wife....
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Kendal Browning
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1940
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S.N. Behrman's hit Broadway show about a guy who writes hit Broadway shows comes to the screen in this comedy. Gaylord...
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Linda Esterbrook
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1940
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Hildy Johnson
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1940
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Garda Sloane
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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Sylvia Fowler
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1939
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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Elizabeth Kent
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1938
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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Christine Manson
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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Jean Christy
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1938
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Olivia Grayne
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1937
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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Julie Stoddard
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1937
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Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in...
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Beatrice Newnes
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1936
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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Harriet Craig
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1936
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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Miss Vandeleur
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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Lady Venetia
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1936
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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Joel Carter
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1935
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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Josephine
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1935
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Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like...
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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Doris
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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Sybil Barclay
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1935
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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Nancy Harrison
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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Sally Voorman
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1934
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