Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
SHE WOULDN'T SAY YES is an occasionally silly yet most enjoyable example of one of my favorite kinds of movies, the romantic comedy. Spending time with this film and its cast is great fun. Rosalind Russell, in one of her patented "career woman" roles, plays Dr. Susan Lane, a psychiatrist. Thanks to a little help from a matchmaking railway ticket agent, Susan is thrown together...
Gilmore Girls News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... mom jeans and driving carpool. With an enviably close relationship with her teenage daughter, a Rosalind-Russell-as-Hildy-Johnson conversational style, a massive tolerance for caffeine and a relationship with her parents that doesn’t even begin to be described by the word “difficult,” she created a vivid picture of the complexities — and fun — of parenthood after the “After School...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... on the ladies' side. Also of note is Best Actor Oscar winner Robert Donat's ninth place finish and Rosalind Russell placing highest among The Women . See the comments section below for the complete stats for both polls, and stay "tooned" for the next MD Poll .
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... atmosphere on news days (it was a weekly) did at times resemble all those scenes in Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell's film, His Girl Friday . And what copy they wrote. I remember having to sub the following sentence about a backhoe loader produced by a Chinese company: "X has produced a cab in which the controls, layout and ergonomics are perfectly designed, provided you are...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Newseum's Reel Journalism series with Nick Clooney presents the 1940's film "His Girl Friday" on December 1st at 7 pm. Clooney's guest for the event is NPR and ABC's Cokie Roberts . His Girl Friday (1940), starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant is about a newspaper editor who will do anything to stop his star reporter and former wife from remarrying. Cokie will share...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay! . With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and...
Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... Bob Hope, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Rosalind Russell, Pearl Bailey, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Julie Andrews, Charles Durning and James Earl Jones, among others. A complete...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Two of these stars below are tied for suffering the most Oscar snubs among actresses: six defeats, no wins. Can you name them? To see the answer, click the "Continue Reading" link underneath the photos. ANSWER: Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. Oscarless Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck lost four times each, Liv Ullmann twice. Two male stars lost more times than all of these...
NHatky (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... while playing Little Bo Peep in Disney’s Babes In Toyland. She appeared as Dainty June in the Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. There were several television appearances in 1960 and 1970 in particular, becoming a regular on the comedy and Hazel 1960 appears in the episode “The Twilight Zone” Mute “ , as the mute telepathic Ilse Nielson in 1963. She also did...
communicatrix (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... books and the rights ( Auntie Mame was also the source material for the Broadway play , starring Rosalind Russell , a Broadway musical starring Angela Lansbury and the film versions of both.) I like to think, though, that he was just done with one thing and ready for another. Having had a recurring fantasy of being the Mailcart Guy for a while, and actually having had the exotic and...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... probably because voters resented the fact that Audrey Hepburn lip-synched to Marni Nixon singing. Rosalind Russell never won an Oscar, but was nominated four...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... now on SlashControl. There's nothing I can say about this movie that hasn't already been said. Rosalind Russell's Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson remains one of the gutsiest heroines to ever grace the silver screen, and the fact that Cary Grant's Walter Burns loves her for her byline makes him one of the sexiest men of all time. The romance, the scheming, and the race to the presses...
Marvel News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"It started with the Spidey story that turned into [MS. MARVEL ANNUAL #1]," remembers the writer. "I got the two of them on the page together and their dialogue started flowing. I probably wrote 50 pages of dialogue for a 30-page comic. They really became a good comedy duo for me as I was writing that. I'm not claiming they're as well-written as Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 'His...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... get back to Howland in time to refuel before her fuel ran out. This theory became the basis of a Rosalind Russell film in 1943 called Flight for Freedom. In 1992 new evidence was found giving more clues about what happened to Amelia. Two groups of researchers dove into the hunt for Amelia after that. The TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) and Elgin Long...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... “group” costume is the stars of “The Women” (1939) which starred Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell amongst an all-female cast. Make a trip to your local thrift or vintage/consignment store and buy a few old, glamorous-looking prom dresses. Remember, whomever dresses up “Mrs. Stephen Haines” (Norma Shearer) has to paint her nails “jungle red.” If you want to add a Halloween...
