Russell Rouse

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Died

October 02, 1987

Cause of Death

Heart Failure And Complications From A Stroke

Biography

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Son of a New York-based assistant director, Edwin Russell, Rouse worked his way up from laborer and assorted low level studio jobs in Hollywood to screenwriter, director and producer with collaborator Clarence Greene. Rouse reputedly worked first as an uncredited screenwriter before writing the offbeat film noir, "D.O.A" (1950) and winning an Oscar for his original story for "Pillow Talk...

Filmography

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The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)

The Oscar (1966)

A House Is Not a Home (1964)

Thunder in the Sun (1959)

House of Numbers (1957)

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

Photos & Videos

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Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song

D.O.A. (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Who's The Blonde?

Family & Companions

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Beverly Michaels

Wife

Actor.

Biography

Son of a New York-based assistant director, Edwin Russell, Rouse worked his way up from laborer and assorted low level studio jobs in Hollywood to screenwriter, director and producer with collaborator Clarence Greene. Rouse reputedly worked first as an uncredited screenwriter before writing the offbeat film noir, "D.O.A" (1950) and winning an Oscar for his original story for "Pillow Talk" (1959). Rouse's films are notable for their offbeat gimmicks: in "D.O.A" a man, dying from a slow-acting poison must find his own murderer before the poison kills him; his directorial debut, "The Well" (1951) which deals with mob psychology and racism has a black child trapped down a well as the only person who can save a suspect from being hanged; and "The Thief" (1952) is a spy film made completely without dialogue. Rouse also directed the more conventional "New York Confidential" (1955), "A House is Not a Home" (1964) and "The Oscar" (1966).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)

The Oscar (1966)

A House Is Not a Home (1964)

Thunder in the Sun (1959)

House of Numbers (1957)

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

New York Confidential (1955)

Wicked Woman (1954)

The Thief (1952)

The Well (1951)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Oscar (1966)

A House Is Not a Home (1964)

Thunder in the Sun (1959)

Pillow Talk (1959)

Based on a Story by

House of Numbers (1957)

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

New York Confidential (1955)

Original Screenplay

Wicked Woman (1954)

Written for Screen by

The Thief (1952)

Written for Screen by

The Well (1951)

Written for Screen by

Story and Screenplay

The Great Plane Robbery (1950)

Based on a Story by

Nothing But Trouble (1945)

Original Screenplay

The Town Went Wild (1944)

Yokel Boy (1942)

Based on a Story by

Producer (Feature Film)

Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)

The Town Went Wild (1944)

Life Events

1950

Formed Greene-Rouse Productions with Clarence Greene (date approximate)

1951

Feature film co-directing debut, "The Well" (with Leo C. Popkin)

Videos

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song Cute graphics, the leading lady with the title tune by Buddy Pepper and Inez James, to Doris Day in the blue negligee and leading man Rock Hudson introducing the premise and the graphic gimmick, off to a rollicking start in their first picture together, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

D.O.A. (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Who's The Blonde? Partying tourist Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) in a San Francisco jazz club, with barkeep (Peter Leeds) and pretty Jeanie (Virginia Lee), critical events underway, in Rudolph Mate's D.O.A., 1950.

D.O.A. (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Want To Report A Murder Edmond O'Brien (as "Frank Bigelow") on a long staggering walk into Los Angeles city hall, where he finds a police captain (Roy Engel), opening Rudolph Mate's D.O.A., 1950.

D.O.A. (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You've Been Murdered A San Francisco Doctor (Frank Gerstle) confirms the diagnosis for Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien), who hurtles down Market St. all the way to the Embarcadero, Rudolph Mate' directing cinematographer Ernest Laszlo, in D.O.A., 1950.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Has He Made Immoral Overtures? Joining infuriated party-line customer Jan (Doris Day), we meet her ever hung-over maid Alma (Thelma Ritter) then the phone company man (Hayden Rorke), following just the first encounter with the leading man (Rock Hudson) she hasn't yet met, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Bedroom Problems Interior decorator Jan (Doris Day) explains to again worse-for-wear maid Alma (Thelma Ritter) that her complaint to the phone company about her party-line partner (Rock Hudson as songwriter Brad) has failed, when he calls, their second indirect meeting, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) That's What All My Wives Said We learn that zillionaire Jonathan (Tony Randall), smitten customer of the dishy interior decorator played by Doris Day, is also the college pal and Broadway financier of songwriter Brad (Rock Hudson), with whom she's at war over their party-line, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

Oscar, The -- (Movie Clip) The Way He Sees It Frank (Stephen Boyd) goes a little Italian after getting chewed out by Laurel (Jill St. John) who then joins pal Hymie (Tony Bennett) for some nasty exposition on Frank's past in The Oscar, 1966.

Oscar, The -- (Movie Clip) Steve Marks Frankie (Stephen Boyd) meets agent Kappy (Milton Berle) for a dinner framed by the entire and meaningful appearance of fellow actor Steve Marks (Peter Lawford) in The Oscar, 1966.

Oscar, The -- (Movie Clip) Red Carpet Unprincipled Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) walks the red carpet on Academy Award night, as Bob Hope opens the broadcast and Hymie Kelly (Tony Bennett) reflects in narration in The Oscar, 1966.

Oscar, The -- (Movie Clip) It's Unclean! Playboy actor Frankie (Stephen Boyd) comes home to ex-sponsor Sophie (Eleanor Parker) for what turns out the be the last time in a night-before and morning-after scene from The Oscar, 1966.

Oscar, The -- (Movie Clip) Frankie's Screen Test Studio boss Kenneth Regan (Joseph Cotten) hears Sophie (Eleanor Parker) and Kappy (Milton Berle) pitch Frank Fane's screen test while Frank (Stephen Boyd) eavesdrops in The Oscar, 1966.

Pillow Talk - (Original Trailer) Doris Day and Rock Hudson give each other interference on their shared telephone line in Pillow Talk (1959).

Nothing But Trouble - (Original Trailer) Laurel and Hardy get jobs as servants to a boy king whose life is in danger and now they're in Nothing But Trouble (1944).

Fastest Gun Alive, The -- (Original Trailer) Glenn Ford is The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), a reformed gunslinger whose past keeps catching up with him.

House of Numbers - (Original Trailer) Jack Palance plays twins in House of Numbers (1957) with one trying to spring the other from San Quentin Prison.

Family

Edwin Russell

Father

Assistant director. Worked on early New York films.

Companions

Beverly Michaels

Wife

Actor.

Bibliography

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