# Rosie! > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rosie! > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rosie!.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie! > Source revision: 1339320384 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1967 film by David Lowell Rich For other uses, see [Rosie](/source/Rosie_(disambiguation)). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Rosie!" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Rosie! Theatrical release poster Directed by David Lowell Rich Written by Samuel A. Taylor Based on play A Very Rich Woman by Ruth Gordon and play Les Joies de la famille by Philippe Heriat Produced by Ross Hunter Jacques Mapes Starring Rosalind Russell Sandra Dee Brian Aherne Cinematography Clifford Stine Edited by Stuart Gilmore Music by Lyn Murray Distributed by Universal Pictures Release date November 22, 1967 (1967-11-22) Running time 98 minutes Country United States Language English ***Rosie!*** is a 1967 American [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [David Lowell Rich](/source/David_Lowell_Rich), based on [Ruth Gordon](/source/Ruth_Gordon)'s play *A Very Rich Woman*. ## Plot Rosie Lord is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred and Edith, spends her money generously. When she announces she intends to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it is the location where her late husband proposed to her and it is now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot complain that they are only granted $100,000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from buying the theater. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver to let them take care of her money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother. Daphne rushes to Oliver's office, but runs into his much younger associate David Wheelwright, who promises to help her after an emotional conversation. Oliver is upset to find out that one of his workers is taking matters in own hands, and meets with David to hear him out. David advises that they should put someone with Rosie to prevent her from doing anything outrageous, because their daughters are sending a private investigator to the case. Oliver takes his advice, but sends him on the job. David reluctantly starts the job, but is quickly drawn to Rosie's extraverted personality. Simultaneously, he goes on a few romantic dates with Daphne and they fall in love. After attending a piano recital, Rosie is abducted by two men, and later awakens in a locked rest home for the mentally unstable in the Santa Monica mountains. Rosie is heartbroken to learn that her daughters committed her to a sanitarium, and rejects an offer from Cabot to sign the papers for her release in exchange for making them responsible of her finances. He assures her that they can keep her in the sanitarium indefinitely if she does not obey their wishes, prompting Rosie to reconsider. Meanwhile, Daphne finds out what has happened, and furiously leaves the home, despite her mother's plea not to leave her. With the help of Oliver and David, Daphne enters the rest home and breaks Rosie out. Rosie, who cannot believe what her own daughters did to her, is next sued in court. Mildred and Edith's lawyer puts Rosie's sanity at debate, and Rosie is ready to announce her defeat during the process. Daphne and Oliver console her during the trial, and when Oliver announces his love for her, Rosie decides to fight again. She faints in court and pretends to be dying, to get her daughters to admit that she is sane (in order for Rosie to change her will just before dying). The case is thereby dismissed and Rosie is now free to marry Oliver. ## Cast - [Rosalind Russell](/source/Rosalind_Russell) as Rosie Lord - [Sandra Dee](/source/Sandra_Dee) as Daphne Shaw - [Brian Aherne](/source/Brian_Aherne) as Oliver Stevenson - [James Farentino](/source/James_Farentino) as David Wheelwright - [Audrey Meadows](/source/Audrey_Meadows) as Mildred Deever - [Vanessa Brown](/source/Vanessa_Brown) as Edith Shaw - [Leslie Nielsen](/source/Leslie_Nielsen) as Cabot Shaw - [Margaret Hamilton](/source/Margaret_Hamilton_(actress)) as Mae - [Reginald Owen](/source/Reginald_Owen) as Patrick - [Juanita Moore](/source/Juanita_Moore) as Nurse - [Virginia Grey](/source/Virginia_Grey) as Mrs. Peters - [Dean Harens](/source/Dean_Harens) as Willetts - [Doris Lloyd](/source/Doris_Lloyd) as Sedalia ## Reception Writing in *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, critic [Howard Thompson](/source/Howard_Thompson_(film_critic)) called the film "a tasteless brew of comedy, [pathos](/source/Pathos) and grim drama...This one is downright embarrassing." He ended his review by writing "This is one 'Rosie!' where the petals fall off and the thorns take over."[1] ## See also - [List of American films of 1967](/source/List_of_American_films_of_1967) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Thompson, Howard (February 8, 1968). "' The Young Warriors' Heads a Double Bill". *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. p. 36. ## External links - [*Rosie!*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063523/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [Moviefone's Rosie Page](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/rosie/1072913/main) v t e Films directed by David Lowell Rich No Time to Be Young (1957) Senior Prom (1958) Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959) See How They Run (1964) Madame X (1966) The Plainsman (1966) Wings of Fire (1967) The Borgia Stick (1967) Rosie! (1967) A Lovely Way to Die (1968) Eye of the Cat (1969) The Mask of Sheba (1970) Northeast of Seoul (1972) The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972) The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) Satan's School for Girls (1973) Runaway! (1973) Death Race (1973) That Man Bolt (1973) The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (1975) Adventures of the Queen (1975) The Story of David (1976) State Fair (1976) SST: Death Flight (1977) Ransom for Alice! (1977) The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978) A Family Upside Down (1978) Little Women (1978) The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981) Thursday's Child (1983) Scandal Sheet (1985) The Defiant Ones (1986) Choices (1986) Infidelity (1987) v t e Films produced by Ross Hunter Take Me to Town (1953) All I Desire (1953) Tumbleweed (1953) Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) Naked Alibi (1954) Magnificent Obsession (1954) The Yellow Mountain (1954) All That Heaven Allows (1955) The Spoilers (1955) Captain Lightfoot (1955) One Desire (1955) There's Always Tomorrow (1956) Battle Hymn (1957) My Man Godfrey (1957) Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) Interlude (1957) The Restless Years (1958) Imitation of Life (1959) This Happy Feeling (1959) A Stranger in My Arms (1959) Pillow Talk (1959) Midnight Lace (1960) Portrait in Black (1960) Back Street (1961) Tammy Tell Me True (1961) Flower Drum Song (1961) If a Man Answers (1962) Tammy and the Doctor (1963) The Thrill of It All (1963) The Chalk Garden (1964) I'd Rather Be Rich (1964) The Art of Love (1965) Madame X (1966) The Pad and How to Use It (1966) Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Rosie! (1967) Airport (1970) Lost Horizon (1973) The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) A Family Upside Down (1978) Suddenly, Love (1978) The Best Place to Be (1979) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rosie!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie!) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie!?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.