Rosalind Russell Movie Rankings
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3.2457
Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. ... more about His Girl Friday
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3.1293
An eccentric woman adopts an orphan boy and introduces him to a variety of experiences. She eventually becomes wealthy when a millionaire she marries dies in an accident. ... more about Auntie Mame
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical
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3.0980
Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. ... more about China Seas
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2.9607
Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. ... more about Women
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2.9399
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. ... more about Citadel
Not Available on DVD
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2.8684
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. ... more about Picnic
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2.8035
Crotchety old Mrs. Bransom hires a charming young man named Danny as a live-in companion. Less charmed by Danny is Mrs. Bransom's niece, Olivia, a repressed young woman who suspects Danny of foul play. ... more about Night Must Fall
Not Available on DVD
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2.5661
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. ... more about Under Two Flags
Not Available on DVD
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2.5307
Hayley Mills and June Harding act up in this affectionate comedy as two juvenile pranksters at the St. Francis Academy for Girls. It is up to Rosalind Russell, starring as the patient and understanding Mother Superior, to show them the right path. ... more about Trouble with Angels
10
2.5113
Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. ... more about Velvet Touch
Not Available on DVD
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2.5052
Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. ... more about Sister Kenny
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress
Not Available on DVD
12
2.4519
Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. ... more about No Time for Comedy
Not Available on DVD
13
2.4025
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. ... more about Woman of Distinction
Not Available on DVD
14
2.4017
The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer. ... more about They Met in Bombay
Not Available on DVD
15
2.3561
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love. ... more about Take a Letter
Not Available on DVD
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2.3440
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. ... more about Gypsy
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
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2.2556
The Crown Prince is to marry the Princess Brenda of Irania, but the Princess declines the arranged marriage. Relieved, Florizel heads for London, with the Colonel, where he seeks adventure and a good time. ... more about Trouble for Two
Not Available on DVD
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2.2099
Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the constant company of close friend Oscar, they are poor, but happy. ... more about Live
Not Available on DVD
20
2.2026
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). ... more about Mourning Becomes Electra
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress
21
2.1825
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert. ... more about Four's a Crowd
Not Available on DVD
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When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. ... more about Casino Murder Case
Not Available on DVD
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To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement. ... more about Design for Scandal
Not Available on DVD
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The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. ... more about Fast and Loose
Not Available on DVD
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John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. He leaves college to go to New York to have his manuscript on jealousy published. ... more about Feminine Touch
Not Available on DVD
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Fictionalized biography of Amelia Earhart (here called Tonie Carter). ... more about Flight for Freedom
Not Available on DVD
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Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. ... more about Forsaking All Others
Not Available on DVD
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Got problems? Need a shrink? Call an alcoholic reporter instead. Janet Ames (Rosalind Russell) is a war widow who deeply resents the five buddies of her husband, whom he died to save, although she only knows their names. ... more about Guilt of Janet Ames
Not Available on DVD
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Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses. ... more about Hired Wife
Not Available on DVD
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A poor boy (Raft) rises to power in politics. When the banker (Dinehart) husband of his secret love (Russell) takes money and flees the country, he replaces the lost amount and becomes implicated in the crime. ... more about It Had to Happen
Not Available on DVD
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Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
Not Available on DVD
37
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Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with men. ... more about Man-Proof
Not Available on DVD
38
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A deluge of stars turn out at Pickfair, where Mary Pickford and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers host a benefit to aid war-torn China. ... more about Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival
Not Available on DVD
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A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. ... more about Movies March On
Not Available on DVD
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Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. ... more about Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy
Not Available on DVD
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Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. ... more about My Sister Eileen
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Not Available on DVD
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A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. ... more about Never Wave at a WAC
Not Available on DVD
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A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. Complications ensue. ... more about Oh Dad
Not Available on DVD
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Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues. ... more about Reckless
Not Available on DVD
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In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. ... more about Rendezvous
Not Available on DVD
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Rosie is a sweet, rich and generous woman, especially when is comes to giving money. Daughters, Mildred and Edith, are worried that she will spend all their inheritance, so they plan to have Rosie put away in a home and have her legally declared insane. ... more about Rosie!
Not Available on DVD
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In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. ... more about Roughly Speaking
Not Available on DVD
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A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. ... more about Screen Snapshots 25th Anniversary
Not Available on DVD
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In this entry in Columbia's Screen Snapshots series (production number 8859), Ralph Staub visits the homes of actresses Judy Canova, Ginny Simms, Rosalind Russell, Brenda Marshall and Eleanor Powell, as they show off their offsprings. ... more about Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers
Not Available on DVD
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Two professional people (Melvyn Douglas, Rosalind Russell) marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. ... more about This Thing Called Love
Not Available on DVD
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Some nuns decide to take some girls from their Catholic girl's school on a trip from the East to California to attend some sort of convention. ... more about Where Angels Go
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This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground. ... more about You Can't Fool a Camera
Not Available on DVD
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