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My Sister Eileen (1942)
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24 September 1942 (USA) morePlot:
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... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Actress Janet Blair Dead at 85 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 21 February 2007)
Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
(From IMDb News. 4 October 2004)
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an original if ever there was one moreCast
(Credited cast)| Rosalind Russell | ... | Ruth Sherwood | |
| Brian Aherne | ... | Robert Baker | |
| Janet Blair | ... | Eileen Sherwood | |
| George Tobias | ... | Appopolous | |
| Allyn Joslyn | ... | Chic Clark | |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Walter Sherwood | |
| Gordon Jones | ... | 'The Wreck' Loomis | |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Grandma Sherwood | |
| Richard Quine | ... | Frank Lippincott | |
| June Havoc | ... | Effie Shelton | |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Officer Lonigan | |
| Frank Sully | ... | Jenson | |
| Clyde Fillmore | ... | Ralph Craven | |
| Jeff Donnell | ... | Helen Loomis (as Miss Jeff Donnell) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Almira Sessions | ... | Prospective Tenant (scenes deleted) | |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Sandhog (scenes deleted) | |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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Rosalind Russell shares the screen with actress and former vaudevillian June Havoc in this film and then portrays her mother (of baby June) in the musical Gypsy (1962). moreQuotes:
Ruth Sherwood: [reading cereal box] Nature's Broom. Gonna have breakfast all day long...Eileen Sherwood: Oh, but it's good for you. It's roughage.
Ruth Sherwood: I like to vary it with a little smoothage, like a steak!
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Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech moreFAQ
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Rosalind Russell was one of the finest comediennes in the American movies, and this in a period which saw the likes of Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn and others. Russell was a rarity: though all the others often played dizzy women, in her comedies, Russell always played smart, hard-edged career women (the exception was her first major comedy role, as the catty Sylvia in THE WOMEN).
At a time when HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS is set to open, with its lackadaisical heroine pursuing a writing career as she tries to make sense of her romantic entanglements, it behooves us to remember MY SISTER EILEEN, which (when it was filmed in 1942) is the prototype, as the two Sherwood sisters (Ruth, played by Rosalind Russell, and her younger sister Eileen, played by Janet Blair) come to New York City to try their hands at writing (for Ruth) and acting (for Eileen). The slapstick annoyances, the charmingly maladroit Greenwich Village denizens (part ethnic, part "bohemian"), the stereotypical romantic encounters, all make for a charming entertainment. In the wake of the sexual frankness of HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, MY SISTER EILEEN might seem dated, but it's a lovely reminder of the wit and the humor of the generation growing up during World War II, when women were (again) finding new possibilities in the workplace, but still had the same problems finding proper dates.