Ruth Taylor
Acting
Biography
Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son was the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry (real name Henry Zuckerman).
Born: January 13, 1905
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Known For
Lucky Stars
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
Butter Fingers
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Broke in China
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Headin' Home
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Flirty Four-Flushers
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
A Rainy Knight
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
A Blonde's Revenge
Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
The Soapsuds Lady
The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Wandering Willies
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
The Perils of Petersboro
Alice Day is the pretty maid who wins the heart of Danny O'Shea, a young artist who motors down to Petersboro to paint the scenery.
Filmography
as Dolly
as Betty Forrester
as Roberta
as Lorelei Lee
as Nurse
as Ruth Hawkins
as Ruth - Donald's Sweetheart
as Alma's Maid
as Slumming Girl
as Ruth Brown
as Bathing Beauty
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Bessie Barnes
as Nellie Perkins
as Hazel Calhoun
as Mildred Tobin
as Gold Hill Ida
as Anita Grey