
Birthday:
01-13-1905
Deathday:
04-12-1984 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Biography
Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son was the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry (real name Henry Zuckerman).
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Headin' Home
Act like Mildred Tobin
event1920 star_border 5.4
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The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
The Soapsuds Lady
Act like Bathing Beauty
event1926
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The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Wandering Willies
Act like Nurse
event1926
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Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
Her Actor Friend
Act like Ruth Bailey
event1926
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Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
The Perils of Petersboro
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1926
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The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy
Butter Fingers
Act like Nellie Perkins
event1925 star_border 5.8
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The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Flirty Four-Flushers
Act like Slumming Girl
event1926 star_border 5
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With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
The College Kiddo
Act like Ruth Albright - Eddie's Sweetheart
event1927
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The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.
The Jolly Jilter
Act like Alma's Maid
event1927
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Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
Cured in the Excitement
Act like Nurse
event1927
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Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
For Sale, a Bungalow
Act like The Stenographer
event1927
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For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
This Thing Called Love
Act like Dolly
event1929
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A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
A Blonde's Revenge
Act like Ruth Brown
event1926 star_border 1
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Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
The Pride of Pikeville
Act like Ruth Hawkins
event1927
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Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
A Rainy Knight
Act like Bessie Barnes
event1925 star_border 5
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Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Broke in China
Act like Ruth - Donald's Sweetheart
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Lucky Stars
event1925 star_border 7
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Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Act like Lorelei Lee
event1928
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Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
Just Married
Act like Roberta
event1928
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After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
The Iron Nag
Act like Hazel Calhoun
event1925
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A jail break turns into a race.
A Yankee Doodle Duke
Act like Ruth Osborn
event1926
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Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
The College Coquette
Act like Betty Forrester
event1929
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Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.
A Hint to Brides
Act like The Newlywed Wife
event1929 star_border 1
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When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.
Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
Act like Anita Grey
event1918
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George Walsh plays the "prodigal" hero in this fast-moving star vehicle from the Fox factory. An incurable cut-up, Jack Spurlock throws a college campus in an uproar when he shows up the first day of classes with his pet bear. Needless to say, Jack is immediately booted out of college, infuriating his big-businessman father (Dan Mason).
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