Rita Karin

Rita Karin

Born: October 24, 1919
Died: September 10, 1993
in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
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 for Rita Karin...

The Pickle
Title: The Pickle
Character: Grandmother
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
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He Said, She Said
Title: He Said, She Said
Character: Mrs. Spepk
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
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Age Isn't Everything
Title: Age Isn't Everything
Character: Flo
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
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Enemies, a Love Story
Title: Enemies, a Love Story
Character: Mrs. Schreier
Released: December 13, 1989
Type: Movie
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
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Title: Chicken Soup
Character: Bea Fisher
Released: September 12, 1989
Type: TV
Chicken Soup is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Jackie Mason and Lynn Redgrave.
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Title: Kate & Allie
Released: March 19, 1984
Type: TV
Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
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Sophie's Choice
Title: Sophie's Choice
Character: Yetta
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Starstruck
Title: Starstruck
Character: Mrs. Reuben
Released: October 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
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The Big Fix
Title: The Big Fix
Character: Aunt Sonya
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
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Nicky's World
Title: Nicky's World
Character: Mrs. Mylonas
Released: April 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
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Up the Sandbox
Title: Up the Sandbox
Character: Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
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Title: ABC Afterschool Special
Character: Mrs. Reuben
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: TV
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Character: Mrs. Goldfarb
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.