Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton

Known for

Acting

Born

December 23, 1892

Birthplace

New York City, New York, USA

Died

November 25, 1961 (aged 68)

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.

Best known work

Dodsworth
Dodsworth
1936
Female
Female
1933
Frisco Jenny
Frisco Jenny
1933
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
Journal of a Crime
Journal of a Crime
1934
Sarah and Son
Sarah and Son
1930
Lilly Turner
Lilly Turner
1933
Complicated Women
Complicated Women
2003
The Lady of Scandal
The Lady of Scandal
1930
Madame X
Madame X
1929

Filmography

  1. 2008

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

    as Alison Drake (archive footage)

  2. 2003

    Complicated Women

    as Self (archive footage)

  3. 1957

  4. 1953

    Hamlet

    as Gertrude

  5. 1951

    Hallmark Hall of FameTV

    as Queen Gertrude (1 episode)

  6. 1948

  7. 1938

    A Royal Divorce

    as Joséphine de Beauharnais

  8. 1937

    The Rat

    as Zelia de Chaumont

  9. 1936

    Dodsworth

    as Fran Dodsworth

  10. 1936

    Girls' Dormitory

    as Professor Anna Mathe

  11. 1936

    Lady of Secrets

    as Celia Whittaker

  12. 1934

    Journal of a Crime

    as Francoise Mollet

  13. 1933

    Female

    as Alison Drake

  14. 1933

    Lilly Turner

    as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon

  15. 1933

    Frisco Jenny

    as Frisco Jenny Sandoval

  16. 1932

    The Crash

    as Linda Gault

  17. 1932

    The Rich Are Always with Us

    as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard

  18. 1932

  19. 1931

    Once a Lady

    as Anna Keremazoff

  20. 1931

  21. 1931

    The House That Shadows Built

    as (archive footage)

  22. 1931

    Unfaithful

    as Lady Fay Kilkerry

  23. 1930

    The Right to Love

    as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg

  24. 1930

    Anybody's Woman

    as Pansy Gray

  25. 1930

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