Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman
Curvaceous brunette leading lady Ruth Roman came to Hollywood after graduating from the Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston. Her first major film assignment was the title role in the 1945 serial The Jungle Queen, a fact that embarrassed her fans far more than it bothered her. She climbed to stardom on the basis of several tough, uncompromising characterizations, often villainous in nature: Her better films of the 1950s include Dallas (1950), Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1950), Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), and The Far Country (1955). In 1956, Roman survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria, finding herself the reluctant focal point of intrusive reporters as she waited in agony to learn the fate of her young son (who fortunately also survived). In films as a character actress until the 1980s, Ruth Roman also had recurring roles in the TV series The Long Hot Summer (1965) and Knots Landing (1986). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Ruth Roman:
- Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert , Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten , Shirley Temple , Agnes Moorehead , Monty Woolley , Lionel Barrymore , Robert Walker , Hattie R. McDaniel , Lloyd Corrigan , Grady Sutton , Andrew V. McLaglen , Guy Madison , Florence Bates , Doodles Weaver , Craig Stevens , Albert Basserman , Keenan Wynn , Rhonda Fleming , Dorothy Dandridge , Neil Hamilton , Alla Nazimova , Terry Moore
- Without Reservations with Claudette Colbert , John Wayne , Don DeFore , Dona Drake , Thurston Hall , William Benedict , Raymond Burr , Joel Fluellen , Cary Grant , John G. Kellogg , Sam McDaniel , Marvin Miller , Charles Moore , Oscar O'Shea , Lorin Raker , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Minerva Urecal , Ian Wolfe , Will Wright , Mervyn LeRoy , Charlie Hall
- Stage Door Canteen with Judith Anderson , Tallulah Bankhead , Ralph Bellamy , Edgar Bergen , Ray Bolger , Virginia Field , Helen Hayes , Katharine Hepburn , Hugh Herbert , Jean Hersholt , Sam Jaffe , Allen Jenkins , George Jessel , Otto Kruger , Gypsy Rose Lee , Aline MacMahon , Harpo Marx , Ethel Merman , Ralph Morgan , Alan Mowbray , Paul Muni , Merle Oberon , George Raft , Martha Scott , Ned Sparks , Ethel Waters , May Whitty , Ed Wynn , Elliott Nugent , Helen Broderick , Sunset Carson , Jane Darwell , William Demarest , Billy Gilbert , Roscoe Karns , June Lang , Charlie the Dummy McCarthy , Franklin Pangborn , Johnny Sr. Weissmuller , Lloyd Corrigan , Xavier Cugat , Peggy Lee
- The Sacketts with Jack Elam , Sam Elliott , Gene Evans , Glenn Ford , Ben Johnson , Paul Koslo , Mercedes McCambridge , Slim Pickens , Gilbert Roland , Tom Selleck , John Vernon
- Impulse with James Dobson , William Shatner
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