Ruth Attaway

Ruth Attaway

出生 : 1910-06-28, Greenville, Mississippi, USA

死亡 : 1987-09-21

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Attaway (June 28, 1910 – September 21, 1987) was an American film and stage actress. Among the films she appeared in include Raintree County (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959) and Being There (1979). Attaway was born on June 28, 1910, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was the daughter of physician W.A. Attaway, PhD. Her siblings included a sister, Florence and a brother, William. She graduated from the University of Illinois, where she majored in sociology. Attaway made her Broadway debut in 1936 in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, You Can't Take It with You. She was the first director of the New York Players Guild, a black repertory theater company formed in New York in 1945. From 1954 to 1955, she portrayed Anna Hicks in the play Mrs. Patterson at the National Theater. From 1964 to 1967, she was with the Repertory Society of Lincoln Center. Attaway made her film debut by portraying Moll in The President's Lady (1953), opposite Susan Hayward and Charlton Heston. She went on to play a variety of characters in film such as Philomena in The Young Don't Cry (1957), Serena Robbins in Porgy and Bess (1959), the Farmer's Wife in Terror in the City (1964), Edna in Conrack (1974) and Louise in Being There (1979). In 1954, Attaway was within the cast of an unaired pilot titled Three's Company. She also played Delia in the 1978 television movie, The Bermuda Depths. Attaway was married to Allan Morrison, an editor of Ebony. He died on May 29, 1968, at the age of 51. Attaway died on September 21, 1987, in New York Hospital of injuries resulting from a Manhattan apartment fire. She was 77 years old.

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チャンス
Louise
知的障害があり読み書きもできない庭師チャンスは物心ついた頃から住み込みで働いていた家の当主の死を知らされるが理解できない。代理人の弁護士から命じられて、今まで出たことがなかった屋敷を出されることになった。チャンスは町で車に接触し、乗っていたエヴァから治療を家ですることを勧められる。名前を問われて「庭師のチャンスです」と応えるが「チャンシー・ガーディナー」という名であると勘違いされる。
The Bermuda Depths
Delia
Scientists investigating the briny deep are threatened by a giant turtle and the spirit of a young brunette swimmer in the Bermuda Triangle.
サブウェイ・パニック
Mayor's Nurse
白昼のニューヨーク。ペラム駅発123号列車が地下路線の途中で武装集団にハイジャックされた。犯人4人、人質18人。地下鉄公安局のガーバー警部補と犯人たちの虚々実々の駆け引きが始まった・・・。
Conrack
Edna
A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Terror in the City
Farmer's Wife
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Porgy and Bess
Serena Robbins
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
The Young Don't Cry
Philomena
An orphaned teen gets involved with some chain-gang convicts.
The President's Lady
Moll
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.