Want to know the best Rosalind Russell movies? How about the worst Rosalind Russell movies? Curious about Rosalind Russell box office grosses or which Rosalind Russell movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Rosalind Russell movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) was a 4-time Oscar® nominated American actress. She was a leading lady in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. That my friends is one great run. Her IMDb page shows 57 acting credits from 1934-1972. This page will rank 51 Rosalind Russell movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her many 6 television roles were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request by Ireland’s Chris.
Rosalind Russell Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Rosalind Russell films by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Rosalind Russell films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Rosalind Russell films by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Rosalind Russell films by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Rosalind Russell film received.
- Sort Rosalind Russell films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Rosalind Russell Table
- Twenty Rosalind Russell movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 39.21% of her movies listed. Her biggest hit was Auntie Mame (1958)
- An average Rosalind Russell movie grosses an average of $98.40 million in adjusted domestic gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 29 Rosalind Russell movies are rated as good movies…or 57.14% of her movies. Auntie Mame (1958) was her highest rated movie while The Girl Rush (1955) was her lowest rated movie.
- Twelve Rosalind Russell movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 23.52% of her movies.
- One Rosalind Russell movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 1.96% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 31 Rosalind Russell movies scored higher than that average….or 60.78% of her movies. Auntie Mame (1958) got the the highest UMR Score while Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1970) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Rosalind Russell
- Catherine Rosalind Russell was one of seven children born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1907.
2. Rosalind Russell was a fashion model before signing a movie contract with Universal. When things did not work out at Universal she moved to MGM and started appearing in movies in 1934.
3. Rosalind Russell quickly rose to fame, and by 1935, was seen as a replacement for actress Myrna Loy (the greatest box office actress of all-time) as she took many roles for which Loy was initially set.
4. Cary Grant introduced Rosalind Russell to her future husband and was the best man at their wedding.
5. Rosalind Russell was married one time and one child. I guess Cary Grant did a good job of playing matchmaker.
6. During the filming of 1939’s The Women, Rosalind Russell actually bit Paulette Goddard in their fight sequence. The bite left a permanent scar on Goddard. Goddard did not hold a grudge as the two remained lifelong friends.
7. Rosalind Russell was nominated for 4 Oscars®. She never won even though she was considered the favorite to win many times.
8. Rosalind Russell was nominated for 5 Golden Globes®. She won ALL 5 times!
9. Rosalind Russell was given an Honorary Oscar® in 1973. It was well deserved.
10. Check out Rosalind Russell’s movie career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Adjusted Worldwide Grosses on 13 Rosalind Russell Movies
- Citadel, The (1938) $324.30 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Evelyn Prentice (1934) $136.90 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Fast and Loose (1939) $100.70 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Feminine Touch, The (1941) $103.00 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Forsaking All Others (1934) $229.50 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Gypsy (1962) $306.90 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Live, Love and Learn (1937) $122.30 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Never Wave At A WAC (1953) $117.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Roughly Speaking (1945) $177.40 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Sister Kenny (1946) $150.30 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- They Met in Bombay (1941) $244.90 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- West Point Of The Air (1935) $135.00 million in adjusted worldwide box office
- Women, The (1939) $282.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
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Rosalind Russell is yet another one of my all time favorite actresses from Hollywood’s Classic Era!!! Out of the the fifty one movies listed on this page, I have seen twenty of them and pretty much enjoyed Roz’s performances in all the films I have seen of hers. I feel the same way about Roz that I feel about John Garfield and Montgomery Clift in that i feel she deserved all the Oscar nominations she got during the course of her career and then some. Loved her Oscar nominated performances in AUNTIE MAME, SISTER KENNY, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, and MY SISTER EILEEN. She also deserved Oscar nominations for such films as THE WOMEN, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, PICNIC, TAKE A LETTER, DARLING and ROUGHLY SPEAKING. Quite frankly, I feel Miss Russell should of WON THE OSCAR in 1940 for her lead performance as Hildy in HIS GIRL FRIDAY. Other Rosalind Russell films I have enjoyed over the years include GYPSY, CHINA SEAS, THE
VELVET TOUCH, THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, HIRED WIFE, CRAIG’S WIFE, THE CITADEL. NIGHT MUST FALL, UNDER TWO FLAGS, FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM and A MAJORITY OF ONE.
Hey Greg
1. Glad a Rosalind Russell fan found our page.
2. Tally count…..Lupino 29, you and Flora are tied at 20, I am at 8 and Steve is at 4.
3. Despite Mourning Becomes Electra’s box office failure…..she was the leading candidate to win the Oscar for that movie….including a famous Oscar moment…where she started walking to the stage before realizing her name was not called…when they announced the winner.
4. As for Picnic…..apparently if she had been willing to be listed as a Supporting Actress…she would have not only been nominated….but she would have won. But she refused to listed in that category.
5. His Girl Friday is the movie that is the movie I think of when I think of Rosalind Russell…..soI am right there with you.
6. Gotta admit I have not seen many of the movies you list in your final paragraph…..but good to know that they are quality movies…..good feedback.
STEVE 1 Good to see your video appearing when Bruce’s new Rosalind page is still fresh in the mind as normally for me the one ideally complements the other. You and he are agreed on 3 of the Top 5 but surprisingly he has Grant’s 1940 His Girl Friday at just 4 whereas it’s your top pick. That movie was of course remade in 1974 as The Front Page [the name of the actual play] with Matthau in Grant’s role and Lemmon ignoring gender and playing Rosalind’s part. In the Grant movie Rosalind was called Hildegard and nicknamed Hildy. The latter must be unisex because Jack retained it in the 1974 film and Matthau as well retained Grant’s 1940 name of Walter Burns. Dan would probably extend the chain further by reminding us that Matthau played villain to Cary’s good guy in 1963s Charade.
2 I’ll say straight away that I regard the video as in the 9.5/10 bracket as the standard of the artwork was so even throughout which made selecting fave posters hard but I’ll mention at random those for Majority of One, Four’s a Crowd, & Craig’s wife. However I thought that especially classy were The Velvet Touch and Night Must Fall and I also must highlight the 2nd one for Picnic as I had never previously seen it for that movie. His Girl Friday’s posters and still were top notch too.
3 Other great stills were Gable/Russell in They Met in Bombay, the ensemble ones from my Joan’s The Women and China Seas and Donat/Russell in The Citadel. Special mention must also be made of the first still in the selection, a solo that showed how lovely Rosalind was in her prime. I have described in my post following Bruce’s page how Rosalind battled to have her name above the title alongside Shearer/Crawford so that ensemble still of just her Joan and Norma will have pleased her. I’m sure that you will not object to me praising as well Bruce’s coloured one above of Rosalind and the young boy which greatly pleased me. Anyway well done for your own efforts and it was nice to see again a few posters co-starring Fred MacM.
Thanks Bob, appreciate the review, rating, comment and comparison.
It’s only been a couple of weeks since I commented on Bruce’s Russell page, won’t be long before we both post the same topic on the same day. 🙂
A lot of films here I’m not familiar with but I do have a nice blu-ray disc of His Girl Friday which includes as an extra the original version of the story The Front Page (1931).
It’s been many years since I last watched it but I remember enjoying Burt Reynolds loose remake of The Front Page which was titled Switching Channels (1988) and co-starred Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve.
Looking at my files only one Rosalind Russell movie received (or is it recieved?) a full 10 out of 10 score and that was His Girl Friday. 4 films with 9 points – Auntie Mame, The Women, The Citadel and Picnic.
Btw Bruce, Rosalind Russell doesn’t seem to be listed on the main index page, Bob Conway isn’t on there either. Where is everyone? On holiday? The UMR is sadly being neglected, there’s dust everywhere… the inmates have taken over the asylum. Pandemonium! (there’s a word we rarely see these days) 😉
Hey Steve….you are right…..I have been slacking….about to update those links…I did include my latest link though….and I have not even let people know it is completed…what am I doing. Don’t worry….we are sweeping the grounds and getting the prisoners back in their cells….lol.
Good review on Steve’s latest video. I have yet to see it….but I will when I get home from work….in the meantime…here is the link… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3bxkQ-kKM
Hello Bruce.
Great page on Rosalind Russell. I had always wonder how her 1960’s films like “Majority of One” and “Rosie” and “Oh Dad, Poor Dad” had fared at the box office. I also didn’t have several of her 1940’s films box office. I love Rosalind Russell, especially in “The Women”,
“His Girl Friday”, “Auntie Mame” and “The Trouble with Angels”. Very Good. Thanks, Bruce.
Hey Lyle….thanks for checking out our Rosalind Russell. Normally when I get to the end of an actor/actress career….it becomes very hard to find the box office numbers….but I give RR lots of credit….her movies in the 1960s were being listed among the Top Grossers…and she was still the lead person. Oh Dad This Movie Has A Really Long Name actually had a pretty decent budget….as it was based on a play with the same name. It barely made a dent at the box office. The only one that proved difficult to find information on was her last one…Mrs. Polifax-Spy.
I have seen and enjoyed 3 of the 4 you mentioned. I have not see The Trouble With Angels….but since I liked the first three so much….I think I should check that one out too. Thanks for the feedback.
I have seen 29 Rosalind Russell movies. I could never really warm up to Auntie Mame, but I can see that it was both a financial as well as critical success. My fav movie of the 30’s (and I guess my fav Russell movie of them all) is The Women. I also like The Citadel and Night must Fall. Roughly Speaking and Sister Kenny top my 40’s list, as I have yet to see His Girl Friday. Picnic is my favorite 50’s picture, while the 60’s brought 4 favorite RR movies: although critics and the public seemed to be of a different opinion back in the day, I really enjoyed Five Finger Exercise, Majority of One and The Trouble with Angels. To a lesser extent, but quite charming, Where Angels go…rounds up my personal list. I’ve seen her 71 outing, but can hardly call it a fav.
On a sidenote, while I don’t want to take away any of Miss Russells glory, let me add that some of the worst movies I’ve watched without giving up were RR vehicles:Oh Dad, poor Dad and Rosie! are plain awful, while The Guilt of Janet Ames, though not falling into that same category, is what you might call “an acquired taste”. Still, much more Glory than Shame for Miss Russell 😉
Thank you for another classic actress!
Hey Lupino
1. Well your 29 is easily the most Rosalind Russell movies watched.
2. I thought Auntie Mame was ok….apparently the furniture shown in the movie was a huge talking point back in the 1950s.
3. Wow….I am stunned that you have not seen His Girl Friday…..that is easily my favorite RR movie….and it is one of the few Cary Grant movies that allows him to be the source of the chaos versus him being the one that has to react to the chaos.
4. Of your favorites…the only one I have seen is The Women….but I think Joan Crawford steals the show in that movie.
5. I have not seen any of her 1960s movies…but I give her kudos for still being a leading lady during that time period….what a wonderful run as a leading actress.
6. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad is a mouthful of a movie title.
7. Glad you liked our latest classic page…working on a 1945 page currently.