My Sister Eileen (1942)

Directed by

Alexander Hall

Genre

comedy film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two sisters from Ohio move to New York City to pursue careers in writing and acting. They encounter a series of comedic mishaps in their small Greenwich Village apartment.

lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatplayfulbreezyromanticcomedicwarm

What happens

My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, and Janet Blair. The screenplay by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov is based on their 1940 play of the same name, inspired by Ruth McKenney's autobiographical short stories first published in The New Yorker. The supporting cast features George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell, Gordon Jones, and The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) in a cameo appearance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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