Cast: Rosalind Russell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Rosalind Russell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
His Girl Friday
1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart
Plot Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day...
8.0
11K votes
8.0
11K votes
The Citadel
1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison
Plot Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his...
7.1
464 votes
7.1
464 votes
Picnic
1956 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Logan
Cast William Holden · Kim Novak · Rosalind Russell · Susan Strasberg
Plot A drifter's plan to finally settle down quickly goes awry when his animal magnetism attracts every woman in town. Starring William Holden and Kim Novak. Nominated for six Academy Awards...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Women
1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland
Plot Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Auntie Mame
1958 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Morton da Costa
Cast Rosalind Russell · Forrest Tucker · Coral Browne · Fred Clark
Plot Sharp-witted, zippy comedy about a woman who lives life to the absolute fullest. When her orphaned 10-year-old nephew shows up on her doorstep, a new life begins for both. Mame's...
6.8
241 votes
6.8
241 votes
Sister Kenny
1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Nichols
Cast Rosalind Russell · Dean Jagger · Alexander Knox · Beulah Bondi
Plot True story of Elizabeth Kenny, a young nurse in the Australian outback who, witnessing patients with polio, determined to come up with a treatment for the disease. She did but,...
6.6
73 votes
6.6
73 votes
Evelyn Prentice
1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Una Merkel · Rosalind Russell
Plot Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an...
6.6
31 votes
6.6
31 votes
The Velvet Touch
1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Jack Gage
Cast Rosalind Russell · Leo Genn · Claire Trevor · Sydney Greenstreet
Plot Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal...
6.5
69 votes
6.5
69 votes
Take a Letter, Darling
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Rosalind Russell · Fred MacMurray · Macdonald Carey · Constance Moore
Plot Struggling painter Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive, A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell). While working to obtain an account from a...
6.5
181 votes
6.5
181 votes
Night Must Fall
1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Montgomery · Rosalind Russell · Dame May Whitty · Alan Marshal
Plot Crotchety old Mrs. Bransom hires a charming young man named Danny as a live-in companion. Less charmed by Danny is Mrs. Bransom's niece, Olivia, a repressed young woman who suspects...
6.3
167 votes
6.3
167 votes
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Janet Blair · George Tobias
Plot 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...
6.2
51 votes
6.2
51 votes
Gypsy
1962 · Movie · 149 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Rosalind Russell · Natalie Wood · Karl Malden · Paul Wallace
Plot While the title suggest that this musical is about the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, it is really about her hard-driven, determined stage mother, Mama Rose. In the beginning, Rose...
6.2
190 votes
6.2
190 votes
Craig's Wife
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Rosalind Russell · John Boles · Billie Burke · Jane Darwell
Plot A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
6.1
43 votes
6.1
43 votes
Under Two Flags
1936 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Ronald Colman · Claudette Colbert · Victor McLaglen · Rosalind Russell
Plot Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her....
6.1
91 votes
6.1
91 votes
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Rosalind Russell · Lee Bowman · Adele Jergens · Charles Winninger
Plot Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but...
6.1
38 votes
6.1
38 votes
Four's a Crowd
1938 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Rosalind Russell · Patric Knowles
Plot 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...
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
This Thing Called Love
1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Rosalind Russell · Melvyn Douglas · Binnie Barnes · Allyn Joslyn
Plot Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. The husband tries various tricks...
6.0
23 votes
6.0
23 votes
Reckless
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Franchot Tone · May Robson
Plot Producer David O. Selznick had dreams of musical stardom for Jean Harlow when he cast her in the melodrama Reckless, based on the tragic life of Broadway singer Libby Holman...
5.9
85 votes
5.9
85 votes
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Movie · 173 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Nichols
Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas
Plot Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter...
5.8
74 votes
5.8
74 votes
The Trouble with Angels
1966 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Ida Lupino
Cast Rosalind Russell · Hayley Mills · Binnie Barnes · Camilla Sparv
Plot Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
5.7
123 votes
5.7
123 votes