Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford (98)

1900-02-16 - 1998-11-30 | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916). By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck. Clifford's obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she "became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era".

On Movies

  • Funny Girl
  • Two Rode Together
  • Sergeant Rutledge
  • The Last Hurrah
  • Designing Woman
  • The Searchers
  • The Cobweb
  • Pluto's Christmas Tree
  • The Quiet Man
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Wagon Master
  • Key to the City
  • Whirlpool
  • Free For All
  • Father Was a Fullback
  • You're My Everything
  • Not Wanted
  • Pluto's Sweater
  • 3 Godfathers
  • Cry of the City
  • The Luck of the Irish
  • Hazard
  • Donald's Dream Voice
  • Mickey's Delayed Date
  • Mother Wore Tights
  • Figaro and Frankie
  • My Darling Clementine
  • Bath Day
  • Shock
  • Leave Her to Heaven
  • The Spider
  • Circumstantial Evidence
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
  • First Aiders
  • The Lodger
  • Coney Island
  • Ten Gentlemen from West Point
  • It Happened in Flatbush
  • Blue, White, and Perfect
  • Holiday Inn
  • Road to Happiness
  • Ball of Fire
  • Cadet Girl
  • Mr. Celebrity
  • Along the Rio Grande
  • Lillian Russell
  • Free, Blonde and 21
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
  • Swanee River
  • Drums Along the Mohawk
  • Wife, Husband and Friend
  • Charlie Chan in Honolulu
  • Safety in Numbers
  • Four Men and a Prayer
  • Hollywood Boulevard
  • To Mary - with Love
  • Paddy O'Day
  • She Married Her Boss
  • She Married Her Boss
  • The Farmer Takes a Wife
  • Stolen Harmony
  • Let's Live Tonight
  • Whom the Gods Destroy
  • Making the Rounds
  • Stand Up and Cheer!
  • Woman Unafraid
  • Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
  • Only Yesterday
  • Pilgrimage
  • The Constant Woman
  • The Hitchhiker
  • Face in the Sky
  • The Show of Shows
  • The Devil's Apple Tree
  • The Thrill Seekers
  • Don Mike
  • Brooding Eyes
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • As Man Desires
  • The Tornado
  • Butterfly
  • The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • The Whispered Name
  • Ponjola
  • April Showers
  • Hell's Hole
  • Mothers-in-Law
  • Truxton King
  • The Dangerous Age
  • The Face on the Barroom Floor
  • My Dad
  • Tropical Love
  • The Invisible Ray
  • The Millionaire Pirate
  • The Game's Up
  • The Cabaret Girl
  • Fires of Youth
  • Midnight Madness
  • Hungry Eyes
  • The Door Between
  • The Savage
  • The Desire of the Moth
  • The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
  • Mother o' Mine
  • A Kentucky Cinderella
  • Polly Put the Kettle On
  • Behind the Lines

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