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My Sister Eileen is an American comedy stage production, written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, based on autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney. The stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then collected and published as the book My Sister Eileen in 1938. The plot focuses on Ruth and Eileen Sherwood, sisters ...
My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne and Janet Blair. Inspired by a series ...
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My Sister Eileen. My Sister Eileen is a 1940 play based on a series of autobiographical short stories written by Ruth McKenney, originally published in The New Yorker and subsequently compiled into a book in 1938. It centers on two sisters from Ohio who are out to make successful careers for themselves while living in a basement apartment in ...
I read My Sister Eileen because I love Leonard Bernstein's musical Wonderful Town. My Sister Eileen is a book of stories of two sisters from Ohio in the 1920s and 30s and the shenanigans they get into. I appreciate McKenney's sense of humor most of the time. Ruth is, by her own account, a rather buxom young girl, to her sister's delicate beauty.
Occupation (s) Author, journalist. Ruth Marguerite McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best remembered for My Sister Eileen, a memoir of her experiences growing up in Ohio and moving to Greenwich Village with her sister Eileen McKenney. Originally published as a series of short stories in The ...
Romantic musical comedy about two girls from Ohio trying to make it in Manhattan. 371 IMDb 6.8 1 h 47 min 1955. 13+. Romance · Arts, Entertainment, and Culture · Cerebral · Joyous. Available to rent or buy.
The working title of this film was The Gay Girls.According to a January 1954 Los Angeles Times news item, Judy Holliday was under consideration to star in the picture, which was baased on the same source as My Sister Eileen, a 1942 Columbia release, also titled My Sister Eileen (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50).
