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.
Personal Details
Movies (30)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Alison Drake (archive footage)
2008
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Homeward Borne
Writer (Writing)
1957
A Royal Divorce
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
1938
The Rat
as Zelia de Chaumont
1937
Dodsworth
as Fran Dodsworth
1936
Girls' Dormitory
as Professor Anna Mathe
1936
Lady of Secrets
as Celia Whittaker
1936
Journal of a Crime
as Francoise Mollet
1934
Female
as Alison Drake
1933
Lilly Turner
as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
1933
Frisco Jenny
as Frisco Jenny Sandoval
1933
The Crash
as Linda Gault
1932
The Rich Are Always with Us
as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
1932
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
as Eve Redman
1932
Once a Lady
as Anna Keremazoff
1931
The Magnificent Lie
as Poll
1931
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
Unfaithful
as Lady Fay Kilkerry
1931
The Right to Love
as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
1930
Anybody's Woman
as Pansy Gray
1930
The Lady of Scandal
as Elsie
1930
Paramount on Parade
as Floozie
1930
Sarah and Son
as Sarah Storm
1930
The Laughing Lady
as Marjorie Lee
1929
Madame X
as Jacqueline Floriot
1929
Charming Sinners
as Kathryn Miles
1929
The Dummy
as Agnes Meredith
1929
The Doctor's Secret
as Lillian Garson
1929
Sins of the Fathers
as Greta Blanke
1928
