Rosalind Russel

OP, why would you, a hetero alt-right, have an obsession about Rosalind Russell? Or this website?

Weird. Go back to your evangelical hate group. You don't belong here.

It looked like she was wearing a full, ankle-length skirt. It wasn't an evening dress.

Roz Russell was a major cunt! She told me I was too “up-front”. I responded by pushing my cooter in her face. She said that it smelled like Lysol . Damn right!

There Promoting “Wonderful Town!”

You can see the quick intelligence on her face as she answers the questions.

Here’s a question for a Datalounge debate:

What was her best movie, “His Girl Friday,” “Auntie Mame,” or “Gypsie”?

"The Women" because it was unlike anything she'd done up to that point in her career and the surprise element of her performance just about walked away with the film. Second best - "The Trouble with Angels" because she did not portray a goody-goody, holier than thou nun but gave the role depth and balance.

[quote]Rosalind Russel

Oh, dear.

[quote]“Gypsie”?

And again.

Liz Taylor also played the game extremely well. And not the way anyone might have expected from Liz.

I know she was much loved, but I found her insufferable onscreen. It was all "schtick" and couldn't get past the grating voice, and she was also, in my view, spectacularly unattractive.

Where can I purchase some POOF?

Her best film IMO is His Girl Friday, though The Women and quite a few others are terrific as well.

She was a delightful presence in comedy, and could be terrific in drama (The Velvet Touch is a fun, noir'ish murder mystery with lots of style).

Before she became known as a comedienne, she starred in several excellent dramas in the 1930s, including Night Must Fall and Craig's Wife, which was later remade by Crawford as Harriet Craig.

That thing with Robert Donat was fizzer.

I loved her, but found her least interesting in her most “dramatic” roles—“Mourning Becomes Electra, for which everyone (including Russell) expected her to win an Oscar (bizarrely, it went to Loretta Young for doing her version of the Muppets’ Swedish Chef avant la lettre) is practically unwatchable (not her fault, really, it’s poorly directed, not O’Neill’s best dialogue, and other fine actors are equally turgid—when Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, And Katina Paxinou are full, you know something is wrong). “Sister Kenny” is a bit more interesting, but still “noble.” She could be good in serious moments within comedies, as in her dressing down of adult Patrick” in “Auntie Mame,” The non-singing scenes in “Gypsy,” and her sorrow over the coffin of her fellow nun in “Angels.” But she was never boring.

The playwright should take the blame for making "Mourning Becomes Electra" so very indigestibly turgid.

A sensible producer would cast these fine actors in a film cut to half its length.

I enjoyed the clip. Thanks. I love the affected accents of Of old people Hollywood folk.