My Sister Eileen | |
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Directed by | Alexander Hall |
Screenplay by | |
Based on | My Sister Eileen 1940 play by Joseph A. Fields Jerome Chodorov |
Produced by | Max Gordon |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
Music by | Sidney Cutner |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.2 million (US rentals)[1] |
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 title, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker. The supporting cast features George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell, Gordon Jones and, in a cameo appearance at the end, The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).