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Ruth Gordon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ruth Gordon 1896-1985, American actress and playwright...her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan (1915), Gordon's career encompassed broad stage and film...Rib (1949), and Pat and Mike (1952). Gordon won an Academy Award for her performance...
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Gordon (Jones), Ruth
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Gordon [Jones], Ruth (1896–1985), actress and playwright. Born in Wollaston...leering, cutting through her scenes with sharp gestures.” Gordon also wrote a successful, semiautobiographical play about a stagestruck...
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Montgomery, Ruth (Schick)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Montgomery, Ruth (Schick) Award-winning...released her autobiography, Ruth Montgomery: Herald of the New Age. Sources: Melton, J. Gordon, Jerome Clark, and Aidan...Research, 1990. Montgomery, Ruth. Born to Heal. New York...
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Years Ago
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Over 21 (1944), a comedy by Ruth Gordon . [ Music Box Theatre , 221 perf...candidate school, his wife, Paula ( Gordon), gives up her successful career...x201D; With this, her first play, Gordon displayed a competency and versatility...
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Ethan Frome
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...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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Kanin, Garson
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...playwright with his Born Yesterday (1946), then later that same year he directed Years Ago , a play by his wife, Ruth Gordon . Kanin later wrote and directed three interesting but unsuccessful plays: The Smile of the World (1949), The Rat...
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Kelly, Gregory
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...performer from New York, whose promising career was cut short by his early death, performed in stock with his wife, Ruth Gordon , then won rave notices as Willie Baxter, the puppy‐lovelorn hero in Seventeen (1918) and as Peter Jones...
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the 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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Seventeen
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Indiana town at the turn of the century, is so smitten one summer with the visiting baby‐talking Lola Pratt ( Ruth Gordon ) that he steals his father's evening clothes in order to court her, leading to romantic and family complications...
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