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Ruth Chatterton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1892-12-23

Day of Death

1961-11-25

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Ruth Chatterton

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 (29)

⭐ 6.1 Role: Alison Drake (archive footage)

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

2008
⭐ 6.9 Role: Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003
⭐ 9.0 Role: Joséphine de Beauharnais

A Royal Divorce

1938
⭐ 8.1 Role: Zelia de Chaumont

The Rat

1937
⭐ 7.1 Role: Fran Dodsworth

Dodsworth

1936
⭐ 6.6 Role: Professor Anna Mathe

Girls' Dormitory

1936
⭐ 6.7 Role: Celia Whittaker

Lady of Secrets

1936
⭐ 5.9 Role: Francoise Mollet

Journal of a Crime

1934
⭐ 6.3 Role: Alison Drake

Female

1933
⭐ 5.3 Role: Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon

Lilly Turner

1933
⭐ 6.7 Role: Frisco Jenny Sandoval

Frisco Jenny

1933
⭐ 5.5 Role: Linda Gault

The Crash

1932
⭐ 5.3 Role: Caroline Van Dyke Grannard

The Rich Are Always with Us

1932
⭐ 8.0 Role: Eve Redman

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

1932
⭐ 4.6 Role: Anna Keremazoff

Once a Lady

1931