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

Dodsworth

as Fran Dodsworth

Female

as Alison Drake

Frisco Jenny

as Frisco Jenny Sandoval

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

as Alison Drake (archive footage)

Journal of a Crime

as Francoise Mollet

Sarah and Son

as Sarah Storm

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

Madame X

as Jacqueline Floriot

Lilly Turner

as Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon

The Lady of Scandal

as Elsie