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Budget. $2,156,000 [1] Box office. $2,578,000 [1] Roughly Speaking is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson. [2] The plot involves a strong-minded mother keeping her family afloat through World War I and the Great Depression. The film was based on the autobiography of the same ...
Roughly Speaking: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan. Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Michael Curtiz
- 1946-04-11
Roughly Speaking was based on the life of Louise Randall Pierson. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to her story for $35,000, according to a July 13, 1943 Hollywood Reporter news item. Pierson was the mother of noted writer-director Frank R. Pierson, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon .
One day, Louise, Jr. gets sick and it is discovered that all the children have polio. Louise nurses the children, willing Louise, Jr. back to health from the brink of death. After their recovery, Louise works hard to help Louise, Jr. overcome her paralysis. When Rod loses his job after the war, Louise keeps her spirits up and gets a job herself.
Roughly Speaking. Determined to rise above her poor but proud upbringing, feisty New Englander Louise Randall (Rosalind Russell) attends business school and marries conservative banker Rodney ...
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- Michael Curtiz
- Comedy, Drama
- Rosalind Russell
Roughly Speaking (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Position In New Haven Appearing on screen for the first time after her narrated childhood, Rosalind Russell as heroine Louise Randall Pierson arrives at college ca. 1909, with friend Alice (Ann Doran) and her frightened dean (Aily Malyon), in the Warner Bros. bio-pic Roughly Speaking , 1945.
Roughly Speaking is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson. The plot involves a strong-minded mother keeping her family afloat through World War I and the Great Depression. The film was based on the autobiography of the same name, published in 1943, by Louise Randall Pierson.
