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Released September 24, 1942
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
96.75 min. (Feature Film)

Fresh from Columbus OH, writer Ruth Sherwood (Rosalind Russell) and her actress sister Eileen (Janet Blair) arrive in New York City with dreams of success. Renting a Greenwich Village basement "apartment" from the fast-talking and fact-loose Mr. Appopolous (George Tobias), the girls find that life in the big city is a lot tougher than expected. Not helping matters are a series of dynamite blasts rocking the apartment, from a new subway tunnel being built underneath.

Ruth meets Bob Baker, the frustrated editor of The Manhatter trying to stop declining circulation with human interest stories, who thinks Ruth's true-life stories of middle America are what the magazine needs. Meanwhile, Eileen's naive and trusting nature attracts all sorts of eccentrics and opportunists.

Rounding out the story's cast of characters are an out-of-work pro football player (Gordon Jones, of THE A&C SHOW fame) and his newlywed wife as upstairs neighbors, a cynical beat cop (Donald MacBride) who assumes that the sisters are "working girls," and a crew of Portugese merchant marines who create an international incident with Eileen.

Adaptation of the Broadway play, based on the real-life short stories of writer Ruth McKenney.

Second only to the 1963 appearance in IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, the Stooges' cameo is hilarious and a perfect payoff to a running gag throughout the film.

MY SISTER EILEEN became a 1960 - 1961 television series starring Elaine Stritch, Shirley Bonne and Rose Marie; Joe Besser guest starred in one episode.

Look closely at the Portugese sailors and you will see Kirk Alyn, several years before he played Superman in two successful Columbia serials.

The Stooges' closing gag appearance was originally intended for a young Forrest Tucker, credited as 'Sandhog' in the dropped scene.

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Rosalind Russell
Ruth Sherwood

Janet Blair
Eileen Sherwood

Grant Mitchell
Walter Sherwood

Elizabeth Patterson
Grandma Sherwood

George Tobias
Mr. Appopolous

Donald MacBride
Officer Lonigan

Allyn Joslyn
Chic Clark

Clyde Fillmore
Ralph Craven

Brian Aherne
Bob Baker

Gordon Jones
Wreck Loomis

Jeff Donnell
Helen Loomis

Richard Quine
Frank Lippincott

June Havoc
Effie Shelton

Arnold Stang
Jimmy, copyboy

Frank McLure
Newspaperman

Charles Halton
Mr. Hawkins

Lewis Howard
Heller, stage manager

Phyllis Kennedy
Annie Wilkerson

Robert Stevens
Harvey, bus driver

Richard Bartell
Flirt in bus depot

Jack Gardner
Bus passenger

Bert Roach
Pete, the drunk

Don Barclay
2nd drunk

Ann Doran
Wallace's receptionist

Ted Lorch
Man outside Wallace's office

George Gray
Man outside Wallace's office

Peggy Converse
Craven's receptionist

Sam Harris
Man in Craven's office

Armand Wright
Strawberry vendor

Chick Chandler
Air Raid Warden

Adia Kuznetzoff
Cossack doorman

Brooks Benedict
Taxi driver

Gino Corrado
Italian chef

Eddie Laughton
Double-decker bus passenger

Hallene Hill
Double-decker bus passenger

George Travell
Portugese sailor

Chavo de Leon
Portugese sailor

George Adrian
Portugese sailor

Tito Renaldo
Portugese sailor

Tom Lincir
Portugese sailor

Kirk Alyn
Portugese sailor

Robert Elliott
Police Sergeant

Pat Lane
Policeman

Ralph Dunn
Officer Griswold

Edward Gargan
Officer Murphy

Walter Sande
Officer Jackson

Charles LaTorre
Captain Amadato

Jerry Howard
Subway worker

Moe Howard
Subway worker

Larry Fine
Subway worker

Douglas Leavitt
Henry Harvey, scene deleted

Almira Sessions
Prospective tenant, scene deleted

Forrest Tucker
Sandhog, scene deleted


Max Gordon
Producer

Ruth McKenney
Original Stories

Jerome Chodorov
Screenplay

Joseph Fields
Screenplay

Joseph Fields
Original Play

Jerome Chodorov
Original Play

Joseph Walker
Director of Photography

Viola Lawrence
Film Editor

Lionel Banks
Art Director

Cary Odell
Associate Art Director

Fay Babcock
Interior Decorator

Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director

Sidney Cutner
Original Music

William Mull
Assistant Director


















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