Ruth Chatterton
American actress (1892-1961) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 68
Ruth Chatterton was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. 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.
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Homeward BorneFilm, Writer1953HamletFilm, Gertrude1951
Hallmark Hall of FameSeries, Queen Gertrude1948
The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries1938
A Royal DivorceFilm, Joséphine de Beauharnais1937
The RatFilm, Zelia de Chaumont1936
DodsworthFilm, Fran Dodsworth1934
Journal of a CrimeFilm, Francoise Mollet1933
FemaleFilm, Alison Drake1932
The CrashFilm, Linda Gault1931
Once a LadyFilm, Anna Keremazoff1930
Anybody's WomanFilm, Pansy Gray1929
Charming SinnersFilm, Kathryn Miles1928
Sins of the FathersFilm, Greta Blanke1892Born24 December 1892People around Ruth
Dorothy Arzner Directed Sarah and Son and Paramount on Parade
William A. Wellman Directed Female, Frisco Jenny and Lilly Turner
Zoë Akins Wrote Sarah and Son and Anybody's Woman- Karl Hajos Wrote The Right to Love and Anybody's Woman
Paul Lukas Also in Dodsworth and The Right to Love
William Dieterle Directed Female and The Crash
Clive Brook Also in Charming Sinners and The Laughing Lady
Victor Schertzinger Directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Herbert Wilcox Produced The Rat and A Royal Divorce
Richard Wallace Directed The Right to Love (1930)
Raymond Griffith Produced Frisco Jenny and Girls' Dormitory
Jack Raymond Directed The Rat and A Royal Divorce
Ludwig Berger Directed Sins of the Fathers (1928)
Frank Reicher Also in Sins of the Fathers and Girls' Dormitory
Gene Markey Wrote Female, Lilly Turner and Girls' Dormitory
Cecil Cunningham Also in Paramount on Parade and Anybody's Woman
B. P. Schulberg Produced Paramount on Parade (1930)
William Wyler Directed Dodsworth (1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Dodsworth (1936)
Jean Arthur Also in Paramount on Parade (1930)
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced Paramount on Parade (1930)
William Churchill deMille Directed The Doctor's Secret (1929)
Douglass Dumbrille Also in Female and Journal of a Crime
Guthrie McClintic Directed Once a Lady (1931)
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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.
