Rita Karin
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3524 |
| Birthday | 1919-10-24 |
| Place of Birth | Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania] |
| Also Known As |
1981
Starstruck
8/1
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
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Starstruck
1993
The Pickle
5/14
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...
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The Pickle
1982
Sophie's Choice
7.322/931
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...
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Sophie's Choice
1991
He Said, She Said
5.859/131
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...
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He Said, She Said
1991
Age Isn't Everything
3.5/4
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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Age Isn't Everything
1989
Enemies, a Love Story
6.216/44
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
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Enemies, a Love Story
1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
5.167/24
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1974
Nicky's World
9/1
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma...
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Nicky's World
1978
The Big Fix
5.769/39
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 re...
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The Big Fix
1972
Up the Sandbox
5.978/23
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 mo...
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Up the Sandbox
1985
Kojak The Belarus File
6.75/4
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
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Kojak The Belarus File
1978
Matilda
5.667/6
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
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