Rosalind Russell
Mrs. Pollifax
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May 20, 1999 · The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax: Directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw. With Angela Lansbury, Thomas Ian Griffith, Ed Bishop, Paul Birchard. When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Anthony Pullen Shaw
- 1999-05-20
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966) 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
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 said than done.
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- Adventure, Comedy
- Leslie H. Martinson
- 1971-02-17
Synopsis. This made-for-television movie, based on the novels by , is about Emily Pollifax (), a mild-mannered New Jersey widow who, through a series of misunderstandings, joins the CIA and becomes an international spy. The film opens on the one-year anniversary of her husband Virgil's death, and she visits his grave, continue to talk to him ...
Mrs. Pollifax–Spy is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, and Nehemiah Persoff. It was released by United Artists . Russell wrote the screenplay for the film, which she adapted from the novel The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman .
- 12 May 1971
- Lalo Schifrin
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Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. 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 ...
Brief Synopsis. Television movie about the recently widowed Emily Pollifax, who is looking for some adventure in her life. One day she decides to follow her childhood dream of being a secret agent and, through a comedy of errors, suddenly finds herself on a plane bound for Marrakesh, Morocco on a secret C.I.A. miss.
