On Monday, WETA Channel 26 presented the one hour film by Jonathan Gruber, “Life Is a Banquet: The Rosalind Russell Story”, produced by the Total Media Group. The film is narrated by Kathleen Turner. Tom Brokaw and Hayle Mills appear.
Rosalind Russell became a stage and movie star in both New York and Hollywood when movie starts were aloof and remote from the public. She performed in Leonard Bernstein’s “Wonderful Town”, lesser known than some of his other works, and with a more limited range.
One of her most important films would be “Auntie Mame” (1958) which has Mame (Rosalind) having to raise a nephew after a family tragedy, a theme discussed here before.
Russell would develop breast cancer and have double radical mastectomy, and then severe rheumatoid arthritis. She would die at the age of 63 in 1976, and a hospital in San Francisco would be named after her.
There is an apparently unrelated song “Life Is a Banquet” by Scribbie Tunes on YouTube, here.
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