REMEMBERING ROSILAND RUSSELL

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 17th, 2004

ACADEMY AWARD (5-18-46) “My Sister Eileen” starring Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair in their original screen roles as two sisters from Ohio who try to survive in their nutty Greenwich Village apartment. House of Squibb, CBS. (28 min)

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (10-21-48) “Mrs. Parkington” starring Rosalind Russell in the story of a rich man and the poor girl he mar-ries. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (29 min)

SUSPENSE (12-9-48) “The Sisters” starring Rosalind Russell with Lurene Tuttle, Joseph Kearns and Jeff Chandler. A woman buys a coffin at a funeral home and asks the morti-cian to hold it for three weeks until she needs it. AutoLite, CBS. (29 min)

SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE (2-1-51) “Take a Letter, Darling” starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray in a comedy about a female advertising executive who hires a male secretary. Great supporting cast: Arthur Q. Bryan, Jim Backus, Peter Leeds, Mary Jane Croft, Isabel Randolph, June Foray, Fritz Feld. RCA Victor, Anacin, NBC. (28 min & 29 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is film historian BOB KOLOSOSKI, who will talk about the film career of Rosalind Russell.