Rita Karin
Birthday: 1919-10-24
Place of Birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
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.
Movies
Starstruck
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational schola...
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The Pickle
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a t...
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Sophie's Choice
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...
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He Said, She Said
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals ...
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Age Isn't Everything
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned...
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Enemies, a Love Story
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his lon...
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals....
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Nicky's World
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks d...
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The Big Fix
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...
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Up the Sandbox
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother sl...
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Matilda
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping...
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