Beginning as a chorus girl at age 14, Ruth Chatterton became a Broadway star with "Daddy Long Legs" in 1914. She appeared in such shows as "Mary Rose" and "Come Out of the Kitchen" before moving to Hollywood in 1925. As her film career faded in the late 1930s, she returned to the stage in revivals, and radio and TV performances, including "Hamlet."...
December 24, 1892, New York City, New York, United States
Died
November 24, 1961, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Place Of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Height
5' 2½" (1.59 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack, Writer
Spouse
Barry Thomson (m. 1942–1960), George Brent (m. 1932–1934), Ralph Forbes (m. 1924–1932)
Parents
Lillian Reed Chatterton, Walter Smith
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Fact
1
Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
2
Upon her death, her remains were interred at Beechwoods Cemetery in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. Her location plot is Section 11, Lot 303, in a crypt in the Lugar Mausoleum.
3
In 1930 she was considered for the role of Nancy in a possible MGM film version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," but the studio never made the film. It would have been the first sound version of a Dickens novel.
4
She directed Broadway plays beginning in the 1920s, and translated French works for the American stage. She was also a licensed pilot who flew her own plane cross-country.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hamlet
1953
TV Movie
Gertrude
Kraft Theatre
1952
TV Series
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1952
TV Series
Alison Stanhope
Celanese Theatre
1951
TV Series
Kit Marlowe
The Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
TV Series
Fran Dodsworth
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1948
TV Series
A Royal Divorce
1938
Josephine de Beauharnais
The Rat
1937
Zelia de Chaumont
Dodsworth
1936
Fran Dodsworth
Girls' Dormitory
1936
Professor Anna Mathe
Lady of Secrets
1936
Celia Whittaker
Journal of a Crime
1934
Francoise
Female
1933
Alison Drake
Lilly Turner
1933
Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
Frisco Jenny
1932
Jenny
The Crash
1932
Linda Gault
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932
Caroline Grannard
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1932
Eve Redman
Once a Lady
1931
Anna Keremazoff
The Magnificent Lie
1931
Poll
Unfaithful
1931
Lady Fay Kilkerry
The Right to Love
1930
Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
Anybody's Woman
1930
Pansy Gray
The Lady of Scandal
1930
Elsie
Paramount on Parade
1930
Floozie (The Montmartre Girl)
Sarah and Son
1930
Sarah Storm
The Laughing Lady
1929
Marjorie Lee
Charming Sinners
1929
Kathryn Miles
Madame X
1929
Jacqueline
The Dummy
1929
Agnes Meredith
The Doctor's Secret
1929
Lillian Garson
Sins of the Fathers
1928
Greta Blanke
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Lady of Scandal
1930
performer: "Say It With a Smile", "Smiles" 1917 - uncredited
Paramount on Parade
1930
performer: "My Marine"
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Playhouse 90
1957
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
20th Century Fox Promotional Film
1936
Documentary short
Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-13
1933
Short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood