Ruth Ford

Ruth Ford

Nacimiento : 1911-07-07, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA

Muerte : 2009-08-12

Perfil

Ruth Ford

Películas

Orson Welles, el genio creador
Self - Actress (archive footage)
La extraordinaria vida de Orson Welles (1915-85), un enigma de Hollywood, un irreductible creador independiente: un prodigio musical, un excelente pintor, un maestro del teatro y de la radio, un Shakespeare moderno, un mago que siempre estaba buscando un nuevo truco con el que sorprender a su público, una legendaria figura romántica que vivió solo para el cine.
Too Much Johnson
Mrs. Billings
Comedia muda rodada por Orson Welles en 1938 para proyectar, en forma de tres prólogos, junto a una obra de teatro del mismo título. Se creía perdida en un incendio que hubo en la casa de Welles en los años 70, pero en julio de 2013 se encontró una copia completa en Italia. Esta copia se restaurará para un estreno en octubre de 2013 en el Dryden Theatre de George Eastman House en Nueva York, con un posterior estreno online en el resto del mundo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Demasiado asustada para gritar
Irma Hornady
Tres chicas y un anciano son asesinados brutalmente en una casa y en pocas horas. La policía sospecha de Vicent, el extraño conserje de noche. A pesar de tenerlo bajo vigilancia, se repiten los mismos asesinatos misteriosos.
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Geneva Read
In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has some strange habits, one of which is keeping a vigil for a lover of many years ago who went out to sea one day and never returned.
Play It as It Lays
Carlotta
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
The Tree
Mrs. Gagnon
A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.
Screen Test: Ruth Ford
Screen test of Ruth Ford
Act One
Beatrice Kaufman
This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.
Sanctuary
Adaptation
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
El castillo de Dragonwyck
Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)
Año 1844. Miranda, la frágil e inocente hija de unos granjeros, es invitada a pasar una temporada en el castillo de Dragonwyck, donde vive un primo lejano de su madre, Nicholas Van Ryn, su esposa enferma y su hija. Miranda se enamora de Van Ryn, quien, al poco de enviudar, se casa con ella, pero entonces empiezan a salir a la luz turbios secretos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Extraña interpretación
Jane Karaski #1
Nora Goodrich, una experta química que se dedica a la investigación, está decidida a probar en sí misma la anestesia que acaba de inventar. Pero, tras inyectársela, todo empieza a irle mal: su novio la abandona, es víctima de un chantaje y una devastadora explosión le desfigura la cara.
Woman Who Came Back
Ruth Gibson
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
Circumstantial Evidence
Mrs. Simms
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Las llaves del reino
Sister Clotilde
Sombrío retrato de la pobreza y el despotismo de la China de los años treinta. El protagonista es el padre Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck), un bondadoso misionero de origen escocés. Peck fue nominado al Óscar al mejor actor protagonista
Wilson
Margaret Wilson
Biopic sobre el presidente democráta de los Estados Unidos Woodrow Wilson. Dejó su puesto en la Universidad de Princeton para presentarse a gobernador de New Jersey, y de ahí fue ascendiendo hasta llegar a presidente (1913-1921). Durante su mandato tuvo que enfrentarse a la muerte de su esposa, además de a las hostilidades alemanas que finalmente llevaron a los Estados Unidos a entrar en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Además fue fundador de la liga de las naciones en 1919, lo que le valió el Premio Nobel de la Paz.
Princess O'Rourke
Clare Stillwell (uncredited)
La princesa María, que visita de incógnito Nueva York, decide volar hasta San Francisco. Sin embargo, después de aterrizar el avión, una serie de enredos la llevan a pasar la noche en casa del piloto, que está convencido de que es una simple criada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Adventure in Iraq
Tess Torrence
Five Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.
Murder on the Waterfront
Lana Shane
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
El bombardero heroico
Nurse (uncredited)
Película ambientada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) en la que un avión de bombardeo de las fuerzas aéreas de Estados Unidos, el B-17, combate en el Pacífico. Viaja a Pearl Harbor, después del ataque nipón, y más tarde es enviado a Manila para ayudar con la defensa en Fipilinas.
Truck Busters
Pearl Dorgan
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
The Gorilla Man
Janet Devon
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
The Hidden Hand
Estelle Channing
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
A través del Pacífico
Secretary (uncredited)
Bogart interpreta a un oficial de artillería del ejército nortamericano que, en 1941, tras un juicio militar, cae en desgracia y decide abandonar el país. Consigue un trabajo en América Central, pero cuando está a punto de irse descubre que los japoneses proyectan atacar el Canal de Panamá y las bases americanas en Pearl Harbor.
Men of the Sky
Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
Escape from Crime
Myrt - Slim's Moll
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
The Devil's Trail
Ella
Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Devil's Trail was based on a story with the more intriguing title "The Town in Hell's Backyard."
Como ella sola
Mother of Accident Victim (uncredited)
Una neurótica mujer, emocionalmente desequilibrada, arruina la vida de todas las personas que se cruzan en su camino, hasta el punto de que las consecuencias de su comportamiento llegan a ser trágicas.
Murder in the Big House
Irene Gordon
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Lady Gangster
Lucy Fenton
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Capricho de Mujer
Myrtle
Una actriz se encuentra a un encantador niño de un año en la Octava Avenida de Nueva York y decide quedarse con él. Pero para poder adoptarlo tiene que encontrar un marido adecuado. Así pues, elige al doctor McBain (Fred MacMurray), y lo que comienza como un matrimonio de conveniencia, termina siendo un amor de verdad.
The Man Who Returned to Life
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Helene de Leon
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
Roaring Frontiers
Reba Bailey
U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.