Ruth Chatterton
Birthday: 1892-12-23
Place of Birth: 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
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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The Doctor's Secret
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man...
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Madame X
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen...
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Frisco Jenny
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After gi...
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Female
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...
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Lilly Turner
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a car...
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Sarah and Son
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up se...
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The Rich Are Always with Us
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has...
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Girls' Dormitory
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknow...
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The Crash
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips fro...
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Journal of a Crime
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime....
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The Right to Love
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate....
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Charming Sinners
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles...
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The Lady of Scandal
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose pl...
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The Rat
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumm...
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The Magnificent Lie
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved bef...
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Unfaithful
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in orde...
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Once a Lady
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an af...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a ha...
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Anybody's Woman
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after....
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Lady of Secrets
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the res...
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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The Laughing Lady
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spu...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...
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The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...
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A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's ...
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Sins of the Fathers
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he st...
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The Dummy
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his de...
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