Ruth Cherrington
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ruth Cherrington.
Born: July 27, 1878
Place of Birth: Ironton, Ohio, USA
Known For
A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
She Married Her Boss
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Shanghai
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Christmas Holiday
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
Filmography
as Townswoman (uncredited)
as Opera Singer (uncredited)
as Dowager (uncredited)
as Matron
as Concertgoer (uncredited)
as Swedish Queen (uncredited)
as Night Club Guest (uncredited)
as Dowager
as Dowager (uncredited)
as Club Woman (uncredited)
as Foreigner (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Opera Spectator (uncredited)
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
as Old Maid Saleswoman
as Distinguished Partygoer
as Miss Hemingway
as Mrs. Crenshaw
as Actress Backstage Who Locks Door (uncredited)
as The Old Woman
as Mrs. Crandall
as Dowager
as Mrs. Gordon
as Duenna
as Mrs. Smythe