Rita Karin

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.

  • Title: Rita Karin
  • Popularity: 6.534
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1919-10-24
  • Place of Birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
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Rita Karin Movies

  • 1982
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    Sophie's Choice
    Sophie's Choice

    7.335 1982 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Meryl Streep

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  • 1991
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    He Said, She Said
    He Said, She Said

    5.887 1991 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kevin Bacon

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  • 1989
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    Enemies, a Love Story
    Enemies, a Love Story

    6.403 1989 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ron Silver

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  • 1978
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    The Big Fix
    The Big Fix

    5.7 1978 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

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  • 1972
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    Up the Sandbox
    Up the Sandbox

    5.8 1972 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Barbra Streisand

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  • 1993
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    The Pickle
    The Pickle

    4.8 1993 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Danny Aiello

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  • 1991
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    Age Isn't Everything
    Age Isn't Everything

    2 1991 HD

    Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jonathan Silverman

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  • 1971
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    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

    4.9 1971 HD

    A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jerry Orbach

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  • 1974
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    Nicky's World
    Nicky's World

    1 1974 HD

    A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Cioffi

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  • 1981
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    Starstruck
    Starstruck

    1 1981 HD

    Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Trini Alvarado

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  • 1997
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    ABC Afterschool Special
    ABC Afterschool Special

    6.3 1997 HD

    Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1989
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    Kate & Allie
    Kate & Allie

    5.8 1989 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Susan Saint James

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  • 1989
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    Chicken Soup
    Chicken Soup

    5 1989 HD

    Chicken Soup is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Jackie Mason and Lynn Redgrave.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jackie Mason

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