Rosalind Russell

You got one more.

Okay, so very classic, for me, queer cinema would be Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell.

Yeah, sure.

Great film.

His job doesn't necessarily affect that.

And even, and you reference it casually, uh, His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, they're reporters in that movie, and that movie cares very much about journalism, journalistic integrity.

It's based on the front page, which is also the same thing, but it's also not a realistic portrayal.

No.

He of Rio Bravo and Red River, among other things.

And it stars Cary Grant as Walter Burns, Rosalind Russell as Hilde Johnson, Ralph Bellamy, the guy who looks like Ralph Bellamy, as Bruce Baldwin.

That, by the way, that's a fucking great joke.

Oh, I love that.

It's in the dialogue.

And there's some, there's still some physical moments that I thought were really interesting and indicative.

Like there's, In the very beginning, when Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, their characters have reunited after being divorced for, what, months? A year? Yeah,

it was like six months, I think, yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen,

next Sunday, two hours before my own show on the same network, the Actors' Company will present The Man Who Came to Dinner with Charles Boyer, Mel Farrar, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Rosalind Russell, and yours truly, Jack Benny.

I'm sure you'll enjoy the show.

And another thing, ladies and gentlemen, the next time we meet, it will be Christmas Day.

Up next, the four-star playhouse, an NBC show which featured four principal actors week after week.

They were Loretta Young, Fred McMurray, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Cummings.

Cummings stars in this next episode, and in that very same year, appeared on the silver screen with two of the leading ladies of the four-star playhouse, Rosalind Russell, in Tell It to the Judge and alongside Loretta Young in The Accused.

This NBC broadcast called Surprise for the Professor, heard on August 28, 1949.

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Four Star Playhouse, a repertory company of four great Hollywood stars.

This is Robert Cummings.

This is Rosalind Russell.

Imagine the greatest names in stage, screen, and radio.

People like Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, Meredith Wilson, Frankie Lane, and many, many others.

Imagine an hour and a half of the very finest in comedy, music, and drama.

Imagine all this rolled into one wonderful program, presided over by the distaff dynamo, Tallulah Bankhead.

This Sunday, the big show comes your way on NBC again.

An hour and a half of the best in comedy, music, and drama.

With guests Bob Hope, Martin and Lewis, Rosalind Russell, Frankie Lane, and unpredictable Tallulah as emcee.

Go ahead, tell them about the thing.

And when it came to the Academy Awards for that particular season, it actually ended up getting nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

and as it is the 5th of september we are going to be watching picnic from 1955 directed by joshua logan and starring william holden so when i brought up the poster for this movie did not look familiar and then when i looked at the cast for this movie i did not know at anything about this particular movie so this was definitely a first watch for me And like I just mentioned, not only does this movie star William Holden, but it also stars Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, Verna Felton, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Rosalind Russell, and Arthur O'Connell.

Charming Hal Carter, played by William Holden, turned to wandering after he failed as his acting career left him loose in the wind.

Interested in reuniting with an old colleague friend, Alan Benson, played by Cliff Robertson, Carter bums a train ride to a tranquil Kansas town.