Birthday:
12-23-1892
Deathday:
11-25-1961 (68 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
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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Dodsworth
Act like Fran Dodsworth
event1936 star_border 7.1
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A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
The Doctor's Secret
Act like Lillian Garson
event1929
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The Doctor's Secret is a 1929 American drama film directed by William C. deMille and written by William C. deMille. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner, John Loder, Robert Edeson, Wilfred Noy and Ethel Wales. It is based on a play by J. M. Barrie.
Madame X
Act like Jacqueline Floriot
event1929 star_border 6
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A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
Frisco Jenny
Act like Frisco Jenny Sandoval
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
Female
Act like Alison Drake
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Lilly Turner
Act like Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
event1933 star_border 5.6
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One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Sarah and Son
Act like Sarah Storm
event1930 star_border 5.2
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A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
The Rich Are Always with Us
Act like Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
event1932 star_border 5.2
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A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
Girls Dormitory
Act like Professor Anna Mathe
event1936 star_border 5.9
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When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
The Crash
Act like Linda Gault
event1932 star_border 5.2
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Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Journal of a Crime
Act like Francoise Mollet
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
The Right to Love
Act like Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
event1930 star_border 5.5
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A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Charming Sinners
Act like Kathryn Miles
event1929
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Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
The Lady of Scandal
Act like Elsie
event1930 star_border 5.1
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A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
The Rat
Act like Zelia de Chaumont
event1937 star_border 7.5
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Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
The Magnificent Lie
Act like Poll
event1931
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A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
Unfaithful
Act like Lady Fay Kilkerry
event1931
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In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
Once a Lady
Act like Anna Keremazoff
event1931 star_border 3.5
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A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Act like Eve Redman
event1932
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A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
Anybody's Woman
Act like Pansy Gray
event1930 star_border 5.9
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A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Lady of Secrets
Act like Celia Whittaker
event1936 star_border 6
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Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Paramount on Parade
Act like Floozie
event1930 star_border 6.1
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This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
The Laughing Lady
Act like Marjorie Lee
event1929 star_border 6
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A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child.
Complicated Women
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2003 star_border 6.7
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Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Act like Alison Drake (archive footage)
event2008 star_border 6.4
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A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
The House That Shadows Built
Act like (archive footage)
event1931 star_border 7
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The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
A Royal Divorce
Act like Joséphine de Beauharnais
event1938
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The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Sins of the Fathers
Act like Greta Blanke
event1928 star_border 6
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A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
The Dummy
Act like Agnes Meredith
event1929
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The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Act like Queen Gertrude (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 8.7
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 6
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The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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