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Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon 1896-1985, American actress and playwright, b. Wollaston, Mass. From her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan (1915), Gordon's career encompassed broad stage and film experience. Among the plays she wrote are Over Twenty-One, Years Ago, and The Leading Lady. She and her husband, the... Read more |
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Seventeen
Seventeen (1918), a play by Hugh Stanislaus Stange and Stannard Mears. [Booth Theatre, 225 perf.] Teenager Willie Baxter ( Gregory Kelly), living in a small Indiana town at the turn of the century, is so smitten one summer with the visiting baby‐talking Lola Pratt ( Ruth Gordon) that he... Read more |
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Hotel Universe
Hotel Universe (1930), a play by Philip Barry. [Martin Beck Theatre, 81 perf.] Ann Field ( Katherine Alexander) has invited a variety of guests to her Riviera estate, including her old beau Pat Farley ( Glenn Anders); the actress Lily Malone ( Ruth Gordon); publisher Tom Ames ( Franchot Tone) and... Read more |
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Adams Rib
ADAM'S RIB USA, 1949 Director:George Cukor Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp.; black and white, 35mm; running time: 101 minutes. Released 1949. Filmed at MGM studios. Producer:Lawrence Weingarten; screenplay:Ruth Gordon and Garson... Read more |
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Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin , 1912-99, American director and writer, b. Rochester, N.Y.; grad. American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 1933. He worked as a saxophonist, comedian, and actor before becoming (1935) an assistant to director George Abbott . During the following years he wrote or directed more than 30 plays... Read more |
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Gordon (Jones), Ruth
Gordon [Jones], Ruth (1896–1985), actress and playwright. Born in Wollaston, Massachusetts...growling, leering, cutting through her scenes with sharp gestures.” Gordon also wrote a successful, semiautobiographical play about a stagestruck... |
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Years Ago
Years Ago (1946), a comedy by Ruth Gordon. [Mansfield Theatre, 199 perf...watching Hazel Dawn in The Pink Lady, Ruth Jones ( Patricia Kirkland) decides...retitled, and presented by Max Gordon. Of its Broadway version, Ward... |
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Over 21
Over 21 (1944), a comedy by Ruth Gordon. [Music Box Theatre, 221 perf...candidate school, his wife, Paula ( Gordon), gives up her successful career as novelist...With this, her first play, Gordon displayed a competency and versatility... |
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Ethan Frome
...National Theatre, 120 perf.] When Mattie Silver ( Ruth Gordon) comes to live with her cousin, Zenobia Frome ( Pauline...Edith Wharton's short novel was enhanced by producer Max Gordon's production featuring Jo Mielziner's superb settings... |
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre
...Players in Ansky's The Dybbuk. Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures (1930) had an unexpected success, but after Ruth Gordon's nostalgic Years Ago (1946) the theatre was used for radio and television shows. It reopened in 1960 under its... |
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Hotel Universe
...variety of guests to her Riviera estate, including her old beau Pat Farley ( Glenn Anders); the actress Lily Malone ( Ruth Gordon); publisher Tom Ames ( Franchot Tone) and his wife, Hope ( Phyllis Povah); the rich Jew Norman Rose ( Earle Larimore... |
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Mainbocher
...costumes for a show, merely those for its star, such as Mary Martin in One Touch of Venus and The Sound of Music, Ruth Gordon in Over 21, Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives, Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam, Katharine Cornell in The Prescott Proposals... |
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Matchmaker, The
Matchmaker, The (1955), a comedy by Thornton Wilder. [Royale Theatre, 486 perf.] Dolly Levi ( Ruth Gordon), who is supposedly helping the rich, smug, and pompous merchant Horace Vandergelder ( Loring Smith) save his niece from an... |
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Wilder, Thornton (Niven)
...also wrote a 1932 translation of Lucrèce for Katharine Cornell and in 1937 made an adaptation of A Doll's House for Ruth Gordon. Despite the diversity of themes and forms, his best plays all offered thoughtful, perceptive views of essentially... |
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts
...famous graduates are Edward G. Robinson, Spencer Tracy, Lauren Bacall, Robert Redford, Anne Bancroft, Hume Cronyn, Ruth Gordon, Margaret Wycherly. Doris Keane, Jason Robards Jr., Elizabeth Franz, and Judd Hirsch. |
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Benedict, Ruth Fulton
Benedict, Ruth Fulton (1887–1948) A student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, Benedict conducted her first fieldwork in the early 1920s... |
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Glass (née Durant), Ruth
Glass (née Durant), Ruth (1912–90) A British urban sociologist, former Director of Research at the influential Centre for Urban Research, University... |
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Culture and Personality School
...demonstrated in the work of anthropologists such as Gregory Bateson, Ruth Benedict, Geoffrey Gorer, and Margaret Mead. Mead, in particular...and the Abnormal’ (Journal of General Psychology, 1934), Ruth Benedict examined social deviance, and drew attention to the... |
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Mead, Margaret
Mead, Margaret (1901–78) An American cultural anthropologist and student of Ruth Benedict. She argued that personality patterns were culturally rather than biologically determined. Her celebrated Coming of Age... |
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medicine, sociology of
...patients, and so forth. The care of the dying has received especial attention, as has the socialization of medical students. Ruth Laub Coser's Life in the Ward (1962) illustrates this tradition.However, whilst these two areas will no doubt remain at... |
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gentrification
...displacement of low-status occupants by higher-income groups, and (frequently) tenure change from private rental to home ownership. The term was first used by the British urban sociologist Ruth Glass (London: Aspects of Change, 1964). |
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culture
...values, and ideologies, as well as particular culturally specific personality types. One exponent of the latter theory was Ruth Benedict (see, for example, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, 1944).In cultural anthropology, analysis of culture may... |
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utopia
...subjected to searching criticism in Boris Frankel's The Post-Industrial Utopians (1987). For a more general treatment of the topic see Ruth Levitas , The Concept of Utopia (1990). See also COMMUNE; MESSIANIC MOVEMENT. |
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Obituary: GORDON, RUTH
Ruth Gordon 1923 ~ 2010 Our dear mother and grandmother, Ruth Marian Gordon, 86, passed away Saturday, March 6, 2010, surrounded by her loving... |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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OBIT - GORDON, RUTH K. FISHER
GORDON, Ruth K. Fisher, 75, of Roanoke, passed away...death by her loving husband, Cleveland J. Gordon. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Larry W. and Karen Gordon of Windy Gap; daughter and son-in... |
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Quote by Gordon, Ruth on Perseverance.(Quotation)
QUOTE: "To be somebody you must last." --Gordon, Ruth SUBJECT: Perseverance |
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Quote by Gordon, Ruth on Getting Ahead.(Quotation)
...Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts." --Gordon, Ruth SUBJECT: Getting Ahead |
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Quote by Gordon, Ruth on Kisses and Kissing.(Quotation)
QUOTE: "The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?" --Gordon, Ruth SUBJECT: Kisses and Kissing |
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GORDON, RUTH R.
...Anonymous Portland Press Herald (Maine) 11-15-2010 GORDON, RUTH R.Byline: AnonymousEdition: FinalSection: Local & StateColumn: Services and Visiting HoursType: NewsGORDON, RUTH R. - 90, of Yarmouth, formerly of Salem, N.H... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Ruth A. Gordon.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Ruth A. Gordon of Cary A memorial service for Ruth A. Gordon will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the Crystal Lake...Roy (Gerry) Gordon of Lakeland Fla., Clifford (Ruth) Gordon of Palatine, Duane (Jan) ... |
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Notre Development official lashes out at environment minister. (Notre...
...official lashes out at environment minister Gordon McGuinty, president of North Bay-based...announcement made by Environment Minister Ruth Grier last month that southern municipalities...not stand up. "We're confident that Ruth Grier's decision will eventually be reversed... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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Ruth G. Gordon.(Local)
SUFFOLK -- SUFFOLK - Ruth Griesbach Gordon died Nov. 9, 2005. She was born...Griesbach. Her husband, James W. Gordon and her brother, Robert A. Griesbach, predeceased her. Mrs. Gordon is survived by her daughters, Jan... |
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Ruth A. Gordon
HIGHLAND, Kan. -- Ruth A. Gordon, 102, Highland, died April 28, 2011. Preceded by: husband...Andrew and Alice Hasness Guthrie; grandson, Dr. William Wayne Gordon; brother, Paul Guthrie; sister, Harriet Franken. Survived by... |
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