Portrait of Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton

Acting

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.

Born: December 23, 1892

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

2003
Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Queen Gertrude

1938
A Royal Divorce

as Joséphine de Beauharnais

1937
The Rat

as Zelia de Chaumont

1936
Dodsworth

as Fran Dodsworth

1936
Girls' Dormitory

as Professor Anna Mathe

1936
Lady of Secrets

as Celia Whittaker

1934
Journal of a Crime

as Francoise Mollet

1933
Female

as Alison Drake

1933
Lilly Turner

as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon

1933
Frisco Jenny

as Frisco Jenny Sandoval

1932
The Crash

as Linda Gault

1932
The Rich Are Always with Us

as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard

1932
1931
Once a Lady

as Anna Keremazoff

1931
The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1931
Unfaithful

as Lady Fay Kilkerry

1930
The Right to Love

as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg

1930
Anybody's Woman

as Pansy Gray

1930
1930
Sarah and Son

as Sarah Storm

1929
The Laughing Lady

as Marjorie Lee

1929
Madame X

as Jacqueline Floriot

1929
Charming Sinners

as Kathryn Miles

1929
The Dummy

as Agnes Meredith

1929
The Doctor's Secret

as Lillian Garson

1928
Sins of the Fathers

as Greta Blanke