Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe sophomores, Miss Marion Montgomery and Miss Jane Hurley, have already tried out and been accepted, but several more are needed. Miss Eileen McGrath '45 is helping to organize the program, which is expected to continue throughout the school year...
...Sister Eileen (Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn; TIME, Sept...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) was made from the play which was made from the stories by Ruth McKenney. It is a brisk sister act on one of the century's favorite comic themes-that of the two young women from the sticks, one plain and smart, the other lovely and not so smart, who try their luck in the metropolis...
Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius...
Rosalind Russell handles Sister Ruth's wit & wisdom with the neat feeling for bias on which she tailors her comic flair. Newcomer Janet Blair, as Sister Eileen, is as fetching as a soda-fountain special at the end of a hot day. Male cinemaddicts will regard her as so much guileless natural force disguised in sprigged muslin. Her prototype, Eileen McKenney, was killed (with her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West) in an auto crash (TIME...