Russell Maloney was born in 1910 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Miriam Battista. He died on 3 September 1948 in New York City, New York, USA.
[from his review in The New Yorker in August 1939] I sat cringing before M-G-M's technicolor production of 'The Wizard of Oz', which displays no trace of imagination, good taste or ingenuity...I say it's a stinkeroo.