The best Rosalind Russell’s comedy movies

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

04/06/1907- 28/11/1976
We present our ranking of the best Rosalind Russell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Rosalind Russell.
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Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame
7.9/10
Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. "Life is a banquet," Mame says, "and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
7.8/10
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

The Women

The Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Sylvia Fowler
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Gypsy

Gypsy
7.1/10
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Four's a Crowd

Four's a Crowd
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/08/1938
  • Character: Jean Christy
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 is dating Lorri, John Dillingwell's granddaughter, he gets involved. Robert begins to make John the most hated man and Lorri blames Pat, the publisher. He then goes to John for a job to erase all the bad publicity that he has gotten from the paper. This works until Pat tells John that Robert was behind the smear campaign. But John decides that he does need some good publicity and hires Robert to provide it...

Man-Proof

Man-Proof
6/10
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 29/03/1966
  • Character: Mother Superior
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Reckless

Reckless
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1935
  • Character: Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/04/1968
  • Character: Mother Simplicia
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels (1966) and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a story by Jane Trahey, and directed by James Neilson. The story depicts the rivalry between the conservative Mother Superior (Russell) and the glamorous, progressive young Sister George (Stevens) as they shepherd a busload of Catholic high school girls across America to an interfaith youth rally being held in Santa Barbara, California. As they debate expressions of faith and role of the Church in the tumultuous America of the sixties, they must also contend with the antics of two rebellious, trouble-prone students, Rosabelle (Susan Saint James) and Marvel Anne (Barbara Hunter).

Breakdowns of 1941

Breakdowns of 1941
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1941
  • Character: Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.

Hired Wife

Hired Wife
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/09/1940
  • Character: Kendal Browning
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.

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Julie Stoddard
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Rendezvous

Rendezvous
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 25/10/1935
  • Character: Joel Carter
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Forsaking All Others

Forsaking All Others
6.4/10
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

No Time for Comedy

No Time for Comedy
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/09/1940
  • Character: Linda Paige Esterbrook
Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.

A Majority of One

A Majority of One
6.7/10
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

A Woman of Distinction

A Woman of Distinction
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/03/1950
  • Character: Susan Middlecott
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. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.

This Thing Called Love

This Thing Called Love
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1940
  • Character: Ann Winters
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Design for Scandal

Design for Scandal
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/12/1941
  • Character: Judge Cornelia C. Porter
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1942
  • Character: Ruth Sherwood
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 in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.

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