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- Mrs. Pollifax is an elderly widow who has come to find life dull and is almost ready to end it all out of sheer boredom. Inspired by a newspaper profile of an actress who began her career in later life, she decides to fulfill a childhood ambition and apply for a job as a spy at the CIA.
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Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a widow from New Jersey, volunteers to be a spy for the CIA, believing she is "expendable" now that her children are grown. Being just what the agency needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), Mrs. Pollifax is assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City.
- 12 May 1971
- Lalo Schifrin
Mrs. Pollifax is an elderly widow who has come to find life dull and is almost ready to end it all out of sheer boredom. Inspired by a newspaper profile of an actress who began her career in later life, she decides to fulfill a childhood ambition and apply for a job as a spy at the CIA.
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- Dorothy Gilman
- Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John le Carré and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local ...
- American
- University of Pennsylvania
- Novelist
- The Mrs. Pollifax series
Feb 17, 1971 · Mrs. Pollifax-Spy: Directed by Leslie H. Martinson. With Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould. A widowed New Jerseyan woman volunteers for spy duty at the CIA, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown, and is assigned to pick up a book in Mexico City, while finding out that it is easier ...
- (533)
- Adventure, Comedy
- Leslie H. Martinson
- 1971-02-17
Previously unadventurous empty nester Mrs. Pollifax (Rosalind Russell) decides she'd like to try a bit of international intrigue. She asks the CIA if there's a place for her in the spy trade,...
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- Leslie H. Martinson
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- Rosalind Russell
Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a widow from New Jersey, volunteers to be a spy for the CIA, believing she is "expendable" now that her children are grown. Being just what the agency needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), Mrs. Pollifax is assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City.
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City.
