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...first, she had to win a battle for Sister Kenny (Ros had met her in 1940. "She looked like an M4 tank, but her eyes were the loneliest and loveliest I've ever looked into"). Ros became a passionate supporter of the Kenny method of treating infantile paralysis. She begged every one she knew to help her make a movie about the Australian nurse. She finally wore down Charles Koerner, then production head of RKO Radio, and browbeat Dudley Nichols into directing the picture. It was a financial failure, but Ros still ranks...
Nonetheless, it began a period of professional setbacks. In return for directing Sister Kenny, Dudley Nichols asked Rosalind to appear in his production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Ros felt that she had to agree, but told her good friend Loretta Young: "I can't imagine what I'm doing in this picture-it's all hate!" Mourning Becomes Electra proved an even bigger financial flop than Sister Kenny. These disasters steeled Ros's determination to return to the stage. While feverishly reading playscripts, she contributed to her movie decline with...
...laughs: "You have to build it from the snickers to the belly to the boff. Sometimes you lose it and get nothing-then you have to work to get it back." The show cost $14,000 to put on and made $600,000 in the 18 weeks that Ros was in it. Most important, the tour got "the kinks" out of her body and helped her make a smash success of Wonderful Town...
...More Year. The show's producer, Robert Fryer, says that no one but Rosalind Russell was ever considered for the part of Ruth in Wonderful Town. Joseph Fields, who wrote the book with Jerome Chodorov, has never met anyone as quick and bright in the theater: "Ros learned her part in two days and was tireless in rehearsals." She also worked herself into the flu in the New Haven tryout and went on opening night with a temperature of 103°. There was more trouble: a chorus boy had dropped her during the conga and in Boston...
...last week, adaptable Ros was happily adjusted to Manhattan living. She is looking for a new apartment and impatiently awaiting the arrival of her husband and nine-year-old son. She claims not to miss her immaculate, airy, French Provincial home in Beverly Hills, her swimming pool, or the happy round of dinner parties. Meanwhile, she is catching up on family reunions: her 78-year-old mother, her sister Josephine and her lawyer brother James still live in or near Waterbury. Her sisters Clara (who became an editor of Town & Country) and Mary Jane (who was once a LIFE researcher...