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









