My Sister Eileen (1942)
My Sister Eileen (1942)
„My Sister Eileen“ is a 1942 comedy film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov is based on the 1940 play of the same name, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney that were originally published in The New Yorker.
An all-out farce whose antics were first introduced in the pages of THE NEW YORKER magazine, then in a hit Broadway play about two Ohio girls newly arrived in New York’s Greenwich Village. The zippy dialogue is nonstop, and Russell proves again to be a comic powerhouse.
Cast:
- Rosalind Russell – Ruth Sherwood
- Brian Aherne – Robert Baker
- Janet Blair – Eileen Sherwood
- George Tobias – Appopolous
- Allyn Joslyn – Chic Clark
- Grant Mitchell – Walter Sherwood
- Gordon Jones – „The Wreck“ Loomis
- Elizabeth Patterson – Grandma Sherwood
- Richard Quine – Frank Lippincott
- June Havoc – Effie Shelton
- Donald MacBride – Officer Lonigan
- Frank Sully – Jenson
- Clyde Fillmore – Ralph Craven
- Jeff Donnell – Helen Loomis
- Chick Chandler – Air Raid Warden
- Phyllis Kennedy – Annie Wilkerson
- Danny Mummert – Boy
- Robert Kellard – Bus Driver
- Jack Gardner – Bus Passenger
- Hallene Hill – Bus Passenger
- Eddie Laughton – Bus Passenger
- George Adrian – Cadet
- Charles La Torre – Captain Amadato
- Gino Corrado – Chef in Italian Restaurant
- Adia Kuznetzoff – Cossack
- Don Barclay – Drunk
- Ralph Dunn – Griswald, Policeman
- Lewis Howard – Heller, Stage Manager
- Douglas Leavitt – Henry Harvey
- Walter Sande – Jackson, Policeman
- Arnold Stang – Jimmy, Newspaper Office Boy
- Richard Bartell – Lothario in Bus Terminal
- Sam Harris – Man in Craven’s Outer Office
- Charles Halton – Mr. Hawkins, Newspaper Editor
- Minna Phillips – Mrs. Wade
- Edward Gargan – Murphy, Policeman
- Frank McLure – Newspaperman
- Frank O’Connor – Newspaperman
- John Harmon – Newspaperman with Eyeshade
- Bert Roach – Pete the Drunk
- Robert Elliott – Police Sergeant
- Eddie Dunn – Policeman
- Pat Lane – Policeman
- Kirk Alyn – Portuguese Merchant Marine Cadet
- Chavo de Leon – Portuguese Merchant Marine Cadet
- Tom Lincir – Portuguese Merchant Marine Cadet
- Tito Renaldo – Portuguese Merchant Marine Cadet
- George Travell – Portuguese Merchant Marine Cadet
- Almira Sessions – Prospective Tenant
- Peggy Converse – Receptionist
- Ann Doran – Receptionist
- Dudley Dickerson – Redcap
- Forrest Tucker – Sandhog
- Armand „Curly“ Wright – Strawberry Vendor
- Larry Fine – Subway Builder
- Curly Howard – Subway Builder
- Moe Howard – Subway Builder
- Brooks Benedict – Taxicab Driver
„Meine Schwester Ellen“ (My Sister Eileen) ist eine Filmkomödie von Alexander Hall aus dem Jahr 1942. Das Drehbuch von Joseph A. Fields und Jerome Chodorov basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Theaterstück von 1940, das von einer Reihe autobiografischer Kurzgeschichten von Ruth McKenney inspiriert wurde, die ursprünglich in The New Yorker veröffentlicht wurden.
Eine farbenfrohe Farce, deren Possen zuerst in der Zeitschrift THE NEW YORKER und dann in einem erfolgreichen Broadway-Stück über zwei Mädchen aus Ohio, die gerade in New Yorks Greenwich Village angekommen sind, vorgestellt wurden. Die spritzigen Dialoge sind nonstop, und Russell erweist sich erneut als komödiantisches Kraftpaket.