Ruth Chatterton
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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
The Philco Television Playhouse
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Queen Gertrude
Dodsworth
Fran Dodsworth
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Alison Drake (archive footage)
The Rich Are Always with Us
Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
Hamlet
Gertrude
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Filmography
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
as Alison Drake (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Hamlet
1953
as Gertrude
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Queen Gertrude
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
A Royal Divorce
1938
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
The Rat
1937
as Zelia de Chaumont
Dodsworth
1936
as Fran Dodsworth
Girls' Dormitory
1936
as Professor Anna Mathe
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Celia Whittaker
Journal of a Crime
1934
as Francoise Mollet
Frisco Jenny
1933
as Frisco Jenny Sandoval
Female
1933
as Alison Drake
Lilly Turner
1933
as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932
as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
The Crash
1932
as Linda Gault
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1932
as Eve Redman
Unfaithful
1931
as Lady Fay Kilkerry
The Magnificent Lie
1931
as Poll
Once a Lady
1931
as Anna Keremazoff
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
Sarah and Son
1930
as Sarah Storm
The Right to Love
1930
as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
The Lady of Scandal
1930
as Elsie
Anybody's Woman
1930
as Pansy Gray
Paramount on Parade
1930
as Floozie
The Doctor's Secret
1929
as Lillian Garson
Madame X
1929
as Jacqueline Floriot
Charming Sinners
1929
as Kathryn Miles
The Laughing Lady
1929
as Marjorie Lee
The Dummy
1929
as Agnes Meredith
Sins of the Fathers
1928
as Greta Blanke