Dusty Anderson

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Dusty Anderson as the cover girl for Yank Magazine, October 1944

Ruth "Dusty" Anderson (born December 17, 1918 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American actress and model.

Life

Pin-up by Dusty Anderson in Yank Magazine

Ruth Anderson was born on December 17, 1918 in Toledo, Ohio. During her school days, Anderson discovered photography as her hobby. So she started modeling to save money on a camera and the right equipment. Her extra income was going so well that she was soon booked for larger jobs. She then moved to New York and called herself Dusty Anderson from then on.

She had her first small film role in 1944 in The Goddess Dances at the side of Rita Hayworth . In October of the same year, she appeared as the pin-up girl of the US billionaire magazine Yank, the Army Weekly . This was followed by supporting roles in more famous films such as Tonight and Every Night and A Goddess on Earth . Anderson appeared in a total of thirteen films.

Dusty Anderson was married twice. From 1941 to 1945 with Charles Mathieu, a captain in the US Army. Then from July 1947 until his death in July 1993 with the film director Jean Negulesco , for whom she had left her ex-husband. The couple's only child died in 1947. In 1951, Anderson made her last film, Take Care of My Little Girl , directed by her husband, before ending her acting career.

Dusty Anderson attended exhibitions and galas with her husband regularly for the next forty years, which kept her in the limelight. After Negulesco's death in 1993, she retired into private life. Dusty Anderson is one of the last surviving actors of the “golden era” of Hollywood.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dusty Anderson. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Dusty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo , Ohio