Ruthelma Stevens
Nacimiento : 1903-10-22, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Muerte : 1984-06-01
Historia
Ruthelma Stevens (23 October 1903 – 1 June 1984) was an American film actress.
Jeffrey's Mother (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, un empresario ocupado, es asediado por hordas de aspirantes a estrellas de conciertos, ávidas de su gran oportunidad. Una de ellas es Cynthia Potter...
Betty Careless
Un jugador es expulsado de una ciudad del oeste, pero tiene que volver cuando, de repente, la ciudad se ve amenazada por un grupo de apaches merodeadores.
Mrs. Mannings
A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.
Roark's Secretary (uncredited)
Gary Cooper es un arquitecto vanguardista en desigual lucha con el mundo. Su deseo de demostrar tanto su talento como el valor del individuo frente a la masa se mezcla con una tórrida y compleja historia de amor en este atípico melodrama, ejemplarmente rodado por Vidor con toda la pasión y el pulso narrativo que le caracterizan. Impresionante banda sonora de Max Steiner y magníficas interpretaciones para una obra maestra del género, de interés especial para los amantes de la arquitectura -los proyectos de Cooper se parecen sospechosamente a los de Frank Lloyd Wright-.
Miss James
Tras un romance con un pianista y una pelea con sus padres, una joven de 19 años abandona su casa y descubre que está embarazada.
Evelyn Bentley
Camelia es una florista cuya tienda peligra cuando una inmobiliaria planea derribarla para edificar viviendas. A pesar de que se enfrenta a Thomas Bentley, el representante de la empresa, Camelia no puede evitar sentir simpatía por él.
The Drunk's Wife
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Doris McBride
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
Fraulein von Elsner (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Celeste, Betty's Sister
In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.
Brunette in Theatre
Un hombre conoce a la hija de su amante y se enamora de ella.
Countess Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
La princesa alemana Sophia Federica (Dietrich) ha sido educada desde niña para convertirse en reina. Al llegar a la adolescencia se concierta y celebra su matrimonio con el Gran Duque de Rusia (Sam Jaffe), el futuro zar Pedro I el Grande, un hombre enfermo de cuerpo y alma. La zarina Elizabeth hace que Sophia cambie su nombre por el de Catalina, aprenda ruso inmediatamente y no vuelva a hablar su lengua materna. Además, deberá darle un heredero que asegure la continuidad de la dinastía Romanov. Pero las relaciones con su inestable marido no van bien.
Doris Manning
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Mrs. Price
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Miss Kelly
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Stoneage Opponent's Wife / Duchess of Worcestshire / Mrs. Haley
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.
Rita
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Show Girl (uncredited)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Miss Kelly
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.