Cast: Rosalind Russell

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis His Girl Friday (1940) is a fast-paced screwball comedy that follows ace reporter Hildy Johnson as she plans to leave journalism to marry her fiancé and start a new life. However, her charismatic and scheming ex-husband and editor, Walter Burns,...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison

Synopsis 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...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast William Holden · Kim Novak · Rosalind Russell · Susan Strasberg

Synopsis A drifter's plan to finally settle down quickly goes awry when his animal magnetism attracts every woman in town. Starring William Holden and Kim Novak. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland

Synopsis 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. On the train taking her to a...

Direction Morton da Costa

Cast Rosalind Russell · Forrest Tucker · Coral Browne · Fred Clark

Synopsis Sharp-witted, zippy comedy about a woman who lives life to the absolute fullest. When her orphaned 10-year-old nephew shows up on her doorstep, a new life begins for both. Mame's digs provide a cool look at what the 1950s considered...

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Dean Jagger · Alexander Knox · Beulah Bondi

Synopsis True story of Elizabeth Kenny, a young nurse in the Australian outback who, witnessing patients with polio, determined to come up with a treatment for the disease. She did but, because the cure was unorthodox, Kenny faced steadfast opposition from...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Una Merkel · Rosalind Russell

Synopsis Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves....

Direction Jack Gage

Cast Rosalind Russell · Leo Genn · Claire Trevor · Sydney Greenstreet

Synopsis 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. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Rosalind Russell · Fred MacMurray · Macdonald Carey · Constance Moore

Synopsis Struggling painter Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive, A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell). While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Montgomery · Rosalind Russell · Dame May Whitty · Alan Marshal

Synopsis 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. When news of a local murder...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Janet Blair · George Tobias

Synopsis 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. The two end up living...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Rosalind Russell · Natalie Wood · Karl Malden · Paul Wallace

Synopsis While the title suggest that this musical is about the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, it is really about her hard-driven, determined stage mother, Mama Rose. In the beginning, Rose concentrates on her talented younger daughter, June, leaving older, less...

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Rosalind Russell · John Boles · Billie Burke · Jane Darwell

Synopsis A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Claudette Colbert · Victor McLaglen · Rosalind Russell

Synopsis 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...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Lee Bowman · Adele Jergens · Charles Winninger

Synopsis Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Rosalind Russell · Patric Knowles

Synopsis 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. When he finds out that Pat...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Melvyn Douglas · Binnie Barnes · Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. The husband tries various tricks to lure his wife into bed, but she trumps his...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Franchot Tone · May Robson

Synopsis Producer David O. Selznick had dreams of musical stardom for Jean Harlow when he cast her in the melodrama Reckless, based on the tragic life of Broadway singer Libby Holman (called Mona Leslie in the movie). Harlow is charming in...

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis 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). But Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam Brant, has become Christine's lover,...

Direction Ida Lupino

Cast Rosalind Russell · Hayley Mills · Binnie Barnes · Camilla Sparv

Synopsis Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.