Ruth Chatterton
Acting
Born: 1892-12-23 in New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, one of the few female pilots in the United States at the time. In the late 1930s, Chatterton retired from film acting but continued her career on the stage. She had several TV roles beginning in the late 1940s and became a successful novelist in the 1950s.
Known For
Dodsworth
Fran Dodsworth
Female
Alison Drake
Frisco Jenny
Frisco Jenny Sandoval
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Alison Drake (archive footage)
Journal of a Crime
Francoise Mollet
Sarah and Son
Sarah Storm
Lilly Turner
Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Lady of Scandal
Elsie
Madame X
Jacqueline Floriot
The Rich Are Always with Us
Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
Paramount on Parade
Floozie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Queen Gertrude
The Philco Television Playhouse
Girls' Dormitory
Professor Anna Mathe
The Crash
Linda Gault
Anybody's Woman
Pansy Gray
Once a Lady
Anna Keremazoff
The Right to Love
Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
The Rat
Zelia de Chaumont
Charming Sinners
Kathryn Miles
Lady of Secrets
Celia Whittaker
The Laughing Lady
Marjorie Lee
Unfaithful
Lady Fay Kilkerry
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Sins of the Fathers
Greta Blanke
The Doctor's Secret
Lillian Garson
The Magnificent Lie
Poll
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Eve Redman
A Royal Divorce
Joséphine de Beauharnais
The Dummy
Agnes Meredith