Coming Up Rose's What?

Ethel Merman in the original Broadway production of Gypsy, 1959

"They've nicknamed her husband the Lizard of Roz, and what they call Rosalind Russell I can't repeat -- but it does rhyme with 'witch,' and you'll find her sort in a kennel!" - Ethel Merman

Rosalind Russell in Gypsy (1962, Warner Bros.)

Goodness Geisha

Rosalind Russell in A Majority of One (1961, Warner Bros.)

Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha (1962, Paramount)

Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in "The Ricardos Go to Japan" from The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1959)

Bathing Broads

With a gimlet and a pool boy both within reach, no doubt.

But, Darling...

...they're your Auntie Mame!

Miss Arden appears courtesy of Stephen Marshal Jones

And Then There Were Nun

Pick your favorite swingin' sister!

Debbie Reynolds in The Singing Nun (1966, MGM)

Diana Ross and the Supremes (with Ron Ely) on television's Tarzan (1968)

Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968, Columbia)

Mary Tyler Moore in Change of Habit (1969, Universal)

Easy to Be Hard

"Roz Russell is hard as nails...She came up the hard way, and it shows." - Ann Sheridan

My Own Best Friend

It Happened

Rosalind Russell and Celeste Holm

Maureen O'Hara and Dorothy Dandridge

Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers

Lucille Ball and June Allyson

Betsy Palmer and Loretta Young

Sandra Dee and Hayley Mills

Beatrice Lillie and Gloria Swanson

The Lizard of Roz