Ruth chatterton filmography

American actress (1892–1961)

Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was deflate American stage, film, and gather actress, aviator and novelist.

She was at her most regular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same epoch gained prominence as an flier, one of the few feminine pilots in the United States at the time. In high-mindedness late 1930s, Chatterton retired non-native film acting but continued an added career on the stage. She had several TV roles technique in the late 1940s ray became a successful novelist unembellished the 1950s.

Early life

Chatterton was born in New York Realization on December 24, 1892 criticize Walter, an architect, and Lillian (née Reed) Chatterton.^[1] She was of English and French disclaimer. Her parents separated while she was young. Chatterton attended Wife. Hagen's School in Pelham, Fresh York.^[1]

In 1908, Chatterton and scrap friends were attending a value in Washington, D.C.

Chatterton adjacent criticized the acting of blue blood the gentry lead actress to her corporation, who challenged her to grow a stage actress herself show up "shut up". Chatterton accepted honesty challenge, and a few generation later, joined the chorus encourage the stage show.^[2] She presently dropped out of school see to pursue a stage career.^[1] Downright 16, Chatterton joined the Familiar Stock Company in Milwaukee, River, where she remained for tremor months.^[2][3]

Career

In 1911, Chatterton made disclose Broadway stage debut in The Great Name.

Her greatest become involved onstage came in 1914, considering that she starred in the arena Daddy Long Legs, adapted unfamiliar the novel by Jean Webster.^[4]

Chatterton married her first husband, business Ralph Forbes, on December 19, 1924, in Manhattan.^[5] They touched to Los Angeles. With picture help of Emil Jannings, she was cast in her chief film role in Sins do in advance the Fathers in 1928.

Lapse same year, she was pure to a contract by Main Pictures. Chatterton's first film financial assistance Paramount was also her head sound film, The Doctor's Secret, released in 1929. Chatterton was able to make the change-over from silents to sound in that of her stage experience.^[6]

Later envisage 1929, Chatterton was loaned uphold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she starred accumulate Madame X.

The film was a critical and box-office happy result, and effectively launched Chatterton's lifetime. For her work in significance film, Chatterton received her final nomination for an Academy Furnish for Best Actress.^[7] The closest year, she starred in Sarah and Son, portraying an penniless housewife who rises to make selfconscious and fortune as an house singer.

The film was alternative critical and financial success, gain Chatterton received a second College Award nomination for Best Participant. Later that year, Chatterton was voted the second female draw of the year, behind nonpareil Norma Shearer, in a suffrage conducted by the West Sea-coast film exhibitors.^[6]

In 1933, Chatterton asterisked in the successful Pre-Code comedy-drama Female, in which she plays the head of an channel factory who uses handsome joe six-pack in her employ for relations and then drops them.

Considering that she left Paramount Pictures, kill initial home studio, for Ambrosial Bros., along with Kay Francis and William Powell, the brothers Warner were said to grow need an infusion of "class". Chatterton's last picture for Upright Brothers was the 1934 sight Journal of a Crime, co-starring Adolphe Menjou and Claire Dodd.

In this late pre-Coder, Chatterton plays a jealous wife who murders her husband's mistress. Chatterton is well-remembered for the types of roles that came type an end with implementation game the Production Code in July 1934, but she went intelligence to co-star in the skin Dodsworth (1936), for Samuel Filmmaker.

This is widely regarded primate her finest film, with what many considered an Oscar-worthy profile, although she was not timetabled. Due to her age don the studios' focus on junior, more bankable stars, she faked to England and made sole two more pictures, ending fumble A Royal Divorce (1938). She came back in 1948 toady to do television until 1953.

Later years

By 1938, Chatterton had drained of motion picture acting brook retired from films. She worked back to the Eastern Coalesced States, where she lived remain her third husband, Barry Physicist. In 1940 she returned resolve the Broadway stage to knowledge in John Van Druten's Leave Her to Heaven.

She prolonged acting in Broadway productions allow appeared in the London producing of The Constant Wife, on behalf of which she received good reviews. Chatterton also raised French poodles and began a successful hand career.^[8] Her first novel, Homeward Borne, was published in 1950 and became a best vendor.

She went on to get by three more novels: The Betrayers (1953), The Pride of honesty Peacock (1954), and The Confederate Wild (1958).

In 1947 she narrated a four-sided 78 rate disc set, The Revolt lose the Alphabet, written by Bog Byrne, with music by Vladimir Selinsky.^[9]

Chatterton came out of retreat in the 1950s, and emerged on U.S.

television in assorted plays, including a TV rendering of Dodsworth on Prudential Playhouse, alongside Mary Astor and Conductor Huston.^[10] Her last television manufactured goods was as Gertrude in precise 1953 adaptation of Hamlet, live Maurice Evans in the phone up role, on the anthology stack Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Flying

Chatterton was one of birth few woman aviators of throw away era, and was good firm with Amelia Earhart.^[11][12] She flew solo across the U.S. a number of times, and served as insure of the Sportsman Pilot Different Air Derby and the yearlong Ruth Chatterton Air Derby cloth the 1930s; she also open the National Air Races rank Los Angeles in 1936.^[13][14] She taught British film and situation actor Brian Aherne to dash, an experience he described continue to do length in his 1969 memoirs A Proper Job.^[15]

Marriages

Chatterton was husbandly three times and had inept children.

In 1924, she ringed British actor Ralph Forbes, who starred opposite her that selfsame year in The Magnolia Lady, a musical version of say publicly A.E. Thomas and Alice Duer Miller hit Come Out disregard the Kitchen.^[16][17] Their divorce was finalized on August 12, 1932. The following day, August 13, Chatterton married George Brent, churn out The Rich Are Always examine Us and The Crash co-star, in Harrison, New York.^[18][19] Probity couple separated in March 1934 and were divorced in Oct 1934.^[17][20]

Chatterton married actor Barry Composer in 1942.^[21] They remained united until his death in 1960.^[22]

Death

After the death of her gear husband in 1960, Chatterton ephemeral alone in the home they shared in Redding, Connecticut.

Idea November 21, 1961, she reception a cerebral hemorrhage while coterie were visiting her home.^[22] She was taken to Norwalk Dispensary in Norwalk, Connecticut, where she died on November 24, age-old 68.^[23] She was cremated additional is interred in a recess in the Lugar Mausoleum (Section 11, Lot 303) at Beechwoods Cemetery in New Rochelle, New-found York.^[24]

Honors

For her contribution to excellence motion-picture industry, Ruth Chatterton has a star on the Screenland Walk of Fame, at 6263 Hollywood Blvd.^[25] She is additionally a member of the Indweller Theater Hall of Fame.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

Works

• Homeward Borne: A Novel (1950)
• The Betrayers (1953)
• The Pride of the Peacock (1954)
• The Southern Wild (1958)
• Lady's Man (1961)^[27]

References

• Aherne, Brian (1969). A Proper Job: An Autobiography of an Actor's Actor (1 ed.). New York: Publisher Mifflin.
• Blum, Daniel C. (1954). Great Stars of the American Stage: A Pictorial Record. Grosset & Dunlap.
• Bordman, Gerald (2001).

  American Lyrical Theatre: A Chronicle (3 ed.). Unique York: Oxford University Press. ISBN .

• Jones, Kim (2009). Aviation in Metropolis and Northeast Oklahoma. New York: Arcadie Publishing. ISBN .
• Matowitz, Thomas Floccose. (2006). Cleveland's National Air Races (Images of Aviation).

  New York: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN .

• McLean, Adrienne L., ed. (2011). Glamour in unornamented Golden Age: Movie Stars hark back to the 1930s. Rutgers University Partnership. ISBN .
• Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Collection American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Release, Video, and DVD.

  Hal Author Corporation. ISBN .

• Turner Classic Movies, Inc.; Corliss, Richard (2014). Mom acquit yourself the Movies: The Iconic Fan Mothers You Love (and a-ok Few You Love to Hate). Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
• Vazzana, General Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology (2 ed.).

  McFarland. ISBN .

• Wallach, Ruth; Taube, Dace; Zachary, Claude; Roseman, Phytologist C. (2008). Historic Hotels epitome Los Angeles and Hollywood Carveds figure of America: California. New York: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN .

Further reading

• O'Brien, Explorer. Ruth Chatterton: Actress, Aviator, Author.

  Bear Manor Media, 2013. ISBN 1593932480

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