Ruth Donnelly
Birthday: 1896-05-17
Place of Birth: North Trenton - New Jersey - USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ruth Donnelly (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982) was an American stage and film actress. Her father was the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey. She began her stage career at the age of 17 in 1913, in The Quaker Girl. Her Broadway debut brought her to the attention of George M. Cohan, who proceeded to cast her in numerous comic-relief roles in such musicals as Going Up (1917). Though she made her first film appearance in 1913, her Hollywood career began in earnest in 1931 and lasted until 1957. In her films she often played the wife of Guy Kibbee (Footlight Parade, Wonder Bar, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington). Among her roles was the part of Sister Michael in The Bells of St. Mary's, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish music...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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Hands Across the Table
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love....
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He ...
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Petticoat Politics
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend ...
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Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je...
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A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...
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Footlight Parade
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when ...
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The Secret of Convict Lake
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the...
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My Little Chickadee
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked ...
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A Lawless Street
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of t...
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Blessed Event
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press....
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This Is the Army
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded i...
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Employees' Entrance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thin...
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The Snake Pit
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arr...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop....
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia...
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Private Detective 62
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported...
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disgu...
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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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Merry Wives of Reno
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces....
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You Belong to Me
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients....
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The Affairs of Annabel
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve ...
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Pillow to Post
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughte...
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Alibi Ike
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitch...
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Wonder Bar
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t...
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Personal Maid's Secret
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised...
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Ever in My Heart
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German....
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
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The Wild Blue Yonder
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between ...
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Cain and Mabel
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt....
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Housewife
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, ...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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More Than a Secretary
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through s...
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Maybe It's Love
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l...
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Army Girl
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martia...
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The Fabulous Texan
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an ...
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The White Cockatoo
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other...
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The Way to the Gold
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in ...
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Just Around the Corner
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's ho...
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Goodbye Again
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious h...
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13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif...
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Convention City
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Presid...
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Personal Secretary
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband....
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Mandalay
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put...
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Scatterbrain
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract....
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Annabel Takes a Tour
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival ge...
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Cross My Heart
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and ...
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Fighting Father Dunne
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....
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The Spider
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening...
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Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...
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Happiness Ahead
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading...
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The Family Next Door
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becom...
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Heat Lightning
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discon...
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Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....
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Portia on Trial
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lo...
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The Gay Vagabond
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business....
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Sailors on Leave
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune....
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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Song and Dance Man
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of pro...
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The Roundup
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble....
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Make Me a Star
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. ...
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor...
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Red Salute
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy ...
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Meet the Girls
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become...
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In Old Sacramento
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead...
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The Spoilers
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold...
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Little Miss Broadway
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent ...
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Breakdowns of 1944
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944....
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Roaring Timber
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he...
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Johnny Doughboy
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, loo...
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How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to o...
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Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...
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Rise and Shine
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football ...
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Romance in the Rain
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind...
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Sleepy Lagoon
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running...
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The Rainbow Trail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's ...
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Millie's Daughter
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a differe...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Rubber Heels
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of ...
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