Ruth Chatterton

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.

Known For

The Philco Television Playhouse

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dodsworth

Complicated Women

The Rat

Madame X

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Female

All Movies (29)

• Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood2008 · as Alison Drake (archive footage)
• Complicated Women2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Royal Divorce1938 · as Joséphine de Beauharnais
• The Rat1937 · as Zelia de Chaumont
• Dodsworth1936 · as Fran Dodsworth
• Girls' Dormitory1936 · as Professor Anna Mathe
• Lady of Secrets1936 · as Celia Whittaker
• Journal of a Crime1934 · as Francoise Mollet
• Female1933 · as Alison Drake
• Lilly Turner1933 · as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
• Frisco Jenny1933 · as Frisco Jenny Sandoval
• The Crash1932 · as Linda Gault
• The Rich Are Always with Us1932 · as Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow1932 · as Eve Redman
• Once a Lady1931 · as Anna Keremazoff
• The Magnificent Lie1931 · as Poll
• The House That Shadows Built1931 · as (archive footage)
• Unfaithful1931 · as Lady Fay Kilkerry
• The Right to Love1930 · as Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
• Anybody's Woman1930 · as Pansy Gray
• The Lady of Scandal1930 · as Elsie
• Paramount on Parade1930 · as Floozie
• Sarah and Son1930 · as Sarah Storm
• The Laughing Lady1929 · as Marjorie Lee
• Madame X1929 · as Jacqueline Floriot
• Charming Sinners1929 · as Kathryn Miles
• The Dummy1929 · as Agnes Meredith
• The Doctor's Secret1929 · as Lillian Garson
• Sins of the Fathers1928 · as Greta Blanke

All TV Shows (2)

• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Queen Gertrude
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948