Movies starring Rosalind Russell

His Girl Friday (1940)

92 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

It would be a fair judgement to say that great movies never grow tiresome, you can watch them time after time and still get as much out of them as you did the very first time. Howard Hawk's "His Girl Friday" is one such movie...

Flight for Freedom (1943)

102 mins     Drama      

It's a strange experience watching "Flight for Freedom" now, 70 years after it was released for the simple fact we have a fictionalized version of the Amelia Earhart story which at the time serve to cause a patriotic frenzy. ...

Sister Kenny (1946)

116 mins     Biography, Drama      

Movie Review - Sister Kenny (1946) inspirational drama starring Rosalind Russell as Elizabeth Kenny who comes up with a treatment for Polio but finds herself in a battle with the medical establishment who not only refused to ...

The Velvet Touch (1948)

100 mins     Drama, Thriller      

Whilst "The Velvet Touch" starts with the accidental murder of Gordon the entire first half of the movie is a flashback, focusing on how things got so heated between Valerie and Gordon. It is interesting enough as we have var...

Picnic (1955)

115 mins     Drama, Romance      

William Holden almost turned down the lead role in "Picnic" he felt at 37 he was to old for the part of twenty something drifter Hal Carter. And sadly Holden was right because whilst he gives it his all to try and act younger...

Gypsy (1962)

143 mins     Biography, Comedy, Drama      

Fast paced, colourful, snappy dialogue, quick delivery and some pleasant musical numbers is all I was really looking for when I put on this 1962 version of "Gypsy" with Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood. And that is what I go...

The Trouble with Angels (1966)

112 mins     Comedy      

The Trouble with Angels (1966) Hayley Mills stars as Mary Clancy a troublesome student at St. Francis Academy which is run by the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell)....

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1970)

110 mins     Adventure , Comedy      

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1970) Rosalind Russell stars as Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a mature woman who offers her services as a spy to the CIA and ends up an adventure in a foreign country...