Rita Karin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Adult: No
Birthday: October 24, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 10, 1993
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Starstruck
Overview: Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
Genres: Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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The Pickle
Overview: Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Sophie's Choice
Overview: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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He Said, She Said
Overview: Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-22
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Age Isn't Everything
Overview: Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Enemies, a Love Story
Overview: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Overview: A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Nicky's World
Overview: A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-19
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The Big Fix
Overview: Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Up the Sandbox
Overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Kojak: The Belarus File
Overview: Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Matilda
Overview: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-22
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