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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Character: Alison Drake (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2008
Complicated Women
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2003
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Queen Gertrude
TV • 1951
The Philco Television Playhouse
Character:
TV • 1948
A Royal Divorce
Character: Joséphine de Beauharnais
MOVIE • 1938
The Rat
Character: Zelia de Chaumont
MOVIE • 1937
Dodsworth
Character: Fran Dodsworth
MOVIE • 1936
Girls' Dormitory
Character: Professor Anna Mathe
MOVIE • 1936
Lady of Secrets
Character: Celia Whittaker
MOVIE • 1936
Journal of a Crime
Character: Francoise Mollet
MOVIE • 1934
Female
Character: Alison Drake
MOVIE • 1933
Lilly Turner
Character: Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
MOVIE • 1933
Frisco Jenny
Character: Frisco Jenny Sandoval
MOVIE • 1933
The Crash
Character: Linda Gault
MOVIE • 1932
The Rich Are Always with Us
Character: Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
MOVIE • 1932
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Character: Eve Redman
MOVIE • 1932
Once a Lady
Character: Anna Keremazoff
MOVIE • 1931
The Magnificent Lie
Character: Poll
MOVIE • 1931
The House That Shadows Built
Character: (archive footage)
MOVIE • 1931
Unfaithful
Character: Lady Fay Kilkerry
MOVIE • 1931
Crew
