Rita Karin

Rita Karin

October 24, 1919 · 107 years old

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 Mu…

Known For

5 titles
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Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice

1982 · 2h 30m · Movie

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

7.5
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He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991 · 1h 55m · Movie

TV viewers love seeing the two reporters with opposing views on the show "He Said, She Said". Womanizer Dan and Lorie fall for each other. Love?

5.7
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Enemies, A Love Story

Enemies, A Love Story

1989 · 1h 59m · Movie

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

6.5
4
The Big Fix

The Big Fix

1978 · 1h 48m · Movie

An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.

6.4
5
Kojak: The Belarus File

Kojak: The Belarus File

1985 · 1h 35m · Movie

Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.

6.9