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Rita Karin is a Actor American born on 24 october 1919 at Vilnius (Lituanie)
Rita Karin (October 24, 1919 – September 10, 1993) was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup, which also starred Lynn Redgrave.
She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of the movie Sophie's Choice.
She died at the age of 73 of undisclosed causes.
(1982)
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 october 1919 at Vilnius (Lituanie)
Death 10 september 1993 (at 73 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 24 october 1919 at Vilnius (Lituanie)
Death 10 september 1993 (at 73 years) at New York City (USA)
She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of the movie Sophie's Choice.
She died at the age of 73 of undisclosed causes.
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He Said, She Said (1991)
, 1h55Directed by Ken Kwapis, Marisa Silver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane, Anthony LaPaglia, Sharon Stone, George Martin
Roles Mrs. Spepk
Rating57%
It is the story of the relationship between journalists Dan Hanson (Bacon) and Lorie Bryer (Perkins) twice – once from each perspective. The man's story was directed by Ken Kwapis and the woman's by Marisa Silver. At the time, Kwapis and Silver were engaged and they married soon after the film was released.
Age Isn't Everything (1991)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Jonathan Silverman, Robert Prosky, Rita Moreno, Paul Sorvino, Robert Cicchini, Joyce Brothers
Rating42%
21-year-old Seymour (Silverman) dreams of becoming an astronaut, but is pressured by his parents (Moreno & Sorvino) to go to Harvard law school and then go into business. After graduating, Seymour lets go of his dreams and becomes a business man. One day, he wakes up and suddenly feels and acts like a 83-year-old man. He is fired from his job for being "too old" and doctors can't explain the situation.
Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
, 1h59Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Małgorzata Zajączkowska, Alan King, Judith Malina
Roles Mrs. Schreier
Rating65%
Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by his gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has a passionate affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust comes to New York.
Sophie's Choice (1982)
, 2h30Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett
Roles Yetta Zimmerman
Rating74%
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau.
, 1h36Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Hervé Villechaize
Roles Mrs. Goldfarb
Rating49%
C'est l'histoire amusante de deux gangs mafieux en guerre à New York. Le gang le plus faible utilise incroyablement un lion pour faire chanter les "clients" du gang opposé. La police réussit à arrêter l'un des gangs, tandis que l'autre reste sans le Boss.Ld