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Ruth Chatterton 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. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1961.
Born
Saturday, 24 December 1892
Died
Friday, 24 November 1961
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Alison Drake / Alison Drake (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Celanese Theatre | Kit Marlowe | 1951 |
| The Prudential Family Playhouse | Fran Dodsworth | 1950 |
| Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Alison Stanhope | 1950 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| A Royal Divorce | Josephine de Beauharnais / Joséphine de Beauharnais | 1938 |
| The Rat | Zelia de Chaumont | 1937 |
| Dodsworth | Fran Dodsworth | 1936 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Alison Drake / Alison Drake (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Celanese Theatre | Kit Marlowe | 1951 |
| The Prudential Family Playhouse | Fran Dodsworth | 1950 |
| Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Alison Stanhope | 1950 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| A Royal Divorce | Josephine de Beauharnais / Joséphine de Beauharnais | 1938 |
| The Rat | Zelia de Chaumont | 1937 |
| Dodsworth | Fran Dodsworth | 1936 |
| Girls' Dormitory | Professor Anna Mathe | 1936 |
| Lady of Secrets | Celia Whittaker | 1936 |
| Journal of a Crime | Francoise Moliet / Francoise Mollet | 1934 |
| Female | Alison Drake | 1933 |
| Lilly Turner | Lilly 'Queenie' Turner Dixon | 1933 |
| Frisco Jenny | Jenny / Frisco Jenny Sandoval | 1933 |
| The Crash | Linda Gault | 1932 |
| The Rich Are Always with Us | Caroline Grannard / Caroline Van Dyke Grannard | 1932 |
| Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Eve Redman | 1932 |
| Once a Lady | Anna Keremazoff | 1931 |
| The Magnificent Lie | Poll | 1931 |
| The House That Shadows Built | Self / (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Unfaithful | Lady Fay Kilkerry | 1931 |
| The Right to Love | Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg | 1930 |
| Anybody's Woman | Pansy Gray | 1930 |
| The Lady of Scandal | Elsie / Elsie Hilary | 1930 |
| Paramount on Parade | Floozie / Floozie (The Montmartre Girl) | 1930 |
| Sarah and Son | Sarah Storm | 1930 |
| The Laughing Lady | Marjorie Lee | 1929 |
| Charming Sinners | Kathryn Miles | 1929 |
| Madame X | Jacqueline / Jacqueline Floriot | 1929 |
| The Dummy | Agnes Meredith | 1929 |
| The Doctor's Secret | Lillian Garson | 1929 |
| Sins of the Fathers | Greta Blanke | 1928 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1930 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
