Ruth Chatterton
Born: 1892-12-23 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1961-11-25
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2008
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Alison Drake (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1957
- Homeward Borne ... (Writer)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Queen Gertrude
1938
- A Royal Divorce as Joséphine de Beauharnais
1937
- The Rat as Zelia de Chaumont
1936
- Girls' Dormitory as Professor Anna Mathe
- Dodsworth as Fran Dodsworth
- Lady of Secrets as Celia Whittaker
1934
- Journal of a Crime as Francoise Mollet
1933
- Lilly Turner as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
- Female as Alison Drake
- Frisco Jenny as Frisco Jenny Sandoval
1932
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
- The Crash as Linda Gault
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow as Eve Redman
1931
- Once a Lady as Anna Keremazoff
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- The Magnificent Lie as Poll
- Unfaithful as Lady Fay Kilkerry
1930
- Anybody's Woman as Pansy Gray
- Sarah and Son as Sarah Storm
- Paramount on Parade as Floozie
- The Lady of Scandal as Elsie
- The Right to Love as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
1929
- Charming Sinners as Kathryn Miles
- The Laughing Lady as Marjorie Lee
- The Dummy as Agnes Meredith
- Madame X as Jacqueline Floriot
- The Doctor's Secret as Lillian Garson
1928
- Sins of the Fathers as Greta Blanke