Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman (born December 22, 1922 in Lynn , Massachusetts , † September 9, 1999 in Laguna Beach , California ; native Norma Roman ) was an American actress .
life and career
Roman received her artistic training at the Bishop Lee Dramatic School before joining small stage troupes as an ensemble member in the early 1940s. From 1943 she worked in the film business, initially only in small parts. After her first substantial role in the film series Jungle Queen in 1945, her acting career slowly took off. Her breakthrough brought her a supporting role on the side of Kirk Douglas in the boxer drama Between Women and Ropes (1949). With her "warm, natural and erotic charisma", she played mainly female lead roles in the following years, for example alongside Gary Cooper in Mortal Enmity (1950) and alongside James Stewart in Anthony Mann's western About the Death Pass (1954). One of her best-known roles was that of Farley Granger's fiancée in Alfred Hitchcock's classic film The Stranger on a Train from 1951.
Since the late 1950s, she has increasingly appeared in television productions. In 1985 she was "Special Guest Star" in ten episodes of the television series Under the California Sun (Knots Landing), which was very successful in the USA . Her last appearance was in 1989 in Murder Is Her Hobby .
Roman was married three times. Her only son, Richard Roman Hall (born November 12, 1952) came from her first marriage with the radio producer Mortimer Wadhams Hall (1924–2012), which lasted from 1950 to 1956. Together with her then three-year-old son and the nanny Grace Els, Roman was one of the survivors of the sinking of the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket in July 1956 .
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1943: Stage Door Canteen
- 1944: Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)
- 1945: Jungle Queen
- 1945: Incendiary Blonde
- 1946: Gilda
- 1949: The Window (The Window)
- 1949: Beyond the Forest (Beyond the Forest)
- 1949: Between women and ropes (Champion)
- 1950: Mortal Enmity (Dallas)
- 1951: Strangers on a train (Strangers on a Train)
- 1951: Borrowed Happiness (Invitation)
- 1953: Wilde Glut (Blowing Wild)
- 1954: Down Three Dark Streets
- 1954: Over the Death Pass (The Far Country)
- 1955: Legion of Hell (Joe MacBeth)
- 1956: Ruthless (Great Day in the Morning)
- 1957: Defense intervenes (5 Steps to Danger)
- 1957: Bitter was the victory (Bitter Victory)
- 1965: Hot Beach Acapulco (Love Has Many Faces)
- 1973: Mordlust (The Killing Kind)
- 1977: Panic in the Sierra Nova (Day of the Animals)
watch TV
- 1959: Bonanza (The Divine Adah [The Magnificent Adah])
- 1963: Alfred Hitchcock presents (TV series, an episode)
- 1970: Death of a Citizen (The Old Man Who Cried Wolf)
- 1974: Punch and Jody (Punch and Jody)
- 1985: Under the California sun
- 1989: Murder is her hobby
Web links
- Ruth Roman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ruth Roman. In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film
- Ruth Roman in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Ruth Roman in the Independent
- ^ Obituary for Ruth Roman in Der Spiegel, 1999
- ^ William H. Honan: Ruth Roman, 75, Glamorous and Wholesome Star, Dies . In: The New York Times . September 11, 1999, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 20, 2016]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roman, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roman, Norma (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lynn , Massachusetts , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1999 |
| Place of death | Laguna Beach , California , United States |