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.

Movies & TV Shows

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