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.
Acted in 29
2000s
- 2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Alison Drake (archive footage)
1930s
- 1938
A Royal Divorce
Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1937
The Rat
Zelia de Chaumont
- 1936
Girls' Dormitory
Professor Anna Mathe
Lady of Secrets
Celia Whittaker
- 1934
Journal of a Crime
Francoise Mollet
- 1933
Female
Alison Drake
Lilly Turner
Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon
Frisco Jenny
Frisco Jenny Sandoval
- 1932
The Crash
Linda Gault
The Rich Are Always with Us
Caroline Van Dyke Grannard
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Eve Redman
- 1931
Once a Lady
Anna Keremazoff
The Magnificent Lie
Poll
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Unfaithful
Lady Fay Kilkerry
- 1930
The Right to Love
Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg
Anybody's Woman
Pansy Gray
The Lady of Scandal
Elsie
Paramount on Parade
Floozie
Sarah and Son
Sarah Storm
1920s
- 1929
The Laughing Lady
Marjorie Lee
The Dummy
Agnes Meredith
The Doctor's Secret
Lillian Garson
- 1928
Sins of the Fathers
Greta Blanke
Wrote 1
1950s
- 1957
Homeward Borne
Writer
Appearances1
2000s
- 2003
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)