Ruth Donnelly

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Born

May 17, 1896

Died

November 17, 1982

Filmography

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The Way to the Gold (1957)

The Spoilers (1956)

Autumn Leaves (1956)

A Lawless Street (1955)

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Maj. Ida Winton

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)

Photos & Videos

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Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Devil In Southampton

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Read My Stuff?

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Way to the Gold (1957)

The Spoilers (1956)

Autumn Leaves (1956)

A Lawless Street (1955)

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Maj. Ida Winton

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)

The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Fighting Father Dunne (1948)

The Snake Pit (1948)

The Fabulous Texan (1947)

Little Miss Broadway (1947)

Millie's Daughter (1947)

The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)

Cross My Heart (1947)

Cinderella Jones (1946)

In Old Sacramento (1946)

Pillow to Post (1945)

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

This Is the Army (1943)

Sleepy Lagoon (1943)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Johnny Doughboy (1942)

"Biggy" Biggsworth

Rise and Shine (1941)

Model Wife (1941)

Mrs. Milo Everett

Petticoat Politics (1941)

The Gay Vagabond (1941)

Sailors on Leave (1941)

The Round Up (1941)

You Belong to Me (1941)

My Little Chickadee (1940)

Meet the Missus (1940)

Scatterbrain (1940)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mrs. [Emma] Hopper

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Effie [Perkins]

The Family Next Door (1939)

Army Girl (1938)

Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)

The Affairs of Annabel (1938)

Personal Secretary (1938)

Meet the Girls (1938)

A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Portia on Trial (1937)

Roaring Timber (1937)

Aunt Mary [MacKinley]

13 Hours by Air (1936)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Cain and Mabel (1936)

Fatal Lady (1936)

More Than a Secretary (1936)

Song and Dance Man (1936)

Patsy O'Madigan

Traveling Saleslady (1935)

Mrs. [Millicent] Twitchell

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Alibi Ike (1935)

The White Cockatoo (1935)

Mrs. [Felicia] Byng

Red Salute (1935)

Mrs. [Edith] Rooney

Personal Maid's Secret (1935)

Maybe It's Love (1935)

Metropolitan (1935)

Wonder Bar (1934)

Heat Lightning (1934)

Mrs. Ashton-Ashley ["Tinkle"]

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)

Happiness Ahead (1934)

Romance in the Rain (1934)

Mandalay (1934)

Housewife (1934)

Goodbye Again (1933)

Convention City (1933)

Employee's Entrance (1933)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Footlight Parade (1933)

Mrs. [Harriet] Gould

Havana Widows (1933)

Miss Frothingham

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

[Gwendolyn] Pete [Harris]

Lilly Turner (1933)

Private Detective 62 (1933)

Ever in My Heart (1933)

Sing Sinner Sing (1933)

Margaret Flannigan

Hard to Handle (1933)

Make Me a Star (1932)

The Rainbow Trail (1932)

Blessed Event (1932)

Jewel Robbery (1932)

The Spider (1931)

Transatlantic (1931)

Rubber Heels (1927)

Cast (Short)

How to Break 90 #6 Fine Points (1934)

Life Events

1913

Debut as chorus girl

1927

First film as actress

Videos

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Devil In Southampton Columnist Moxley (Ned Sparks) returns from vacation to chew out his substitute (Lee Tracy as Alvin Roberts) for printing outrageous society gossip, Miss Stevens (Ruth Donnelly) steering clear, when the editor Miller (Walter Walker) arrives with a surprise ruling, in director Roy Del Ruth’s Blessed Event, 1932, from Warner Bros.

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Read My Stuff? Off to a flying start in the definitive Lee Tracy pre-Code picture, his first starring role, as novice newsman Alvin, from the advertising department, filling in for a vacationing columnist, having discovered the trick of fabricating news of prominent pregnancies, Ruth Donnelly as Miss Stevens, Mary Brian as society writer Gladys, in Blessed Event, 1932, from a play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson.

Hard To Handle (1933) -- (Movie Clip) It Ain't Humanely Possible Joining director Mervyn LeRoy’s breakneck opening, Allen Jenkins the MC at an outrageous Hollywood dance marathon, the last two couples standing are (second-billed) Mary Brian with Matt McHugh and Sterling Holloway with Mary Doran, before we meet the promoter, above-the-title billed James Cagney as Lefty, in Warner Bros.’ Hard To Handle, 1933.

Hard To Handle (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Your Mother Doesn't Own A Gun, Does She? Hollywood widow landlady Ruth Donnelly is looking to scam a furniture buyer (William H. Strauss) while her daughter Ruth (Mary Brian) is still soaking her feet, after winning a dance marathon, with some help from her promoter boyfriend Lefty (James Cagney), who was himself robbed of the prize she was supposed to get, in Hard To Handle, 1933.

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) How Would You Like A Wax Banana? Threatening to fire most everybody (excepting Ruth Donnelly, his assistant), hard-headed department store executive Anderson (Warren William) has a random meet-cute with wannabe employee Madeline (Loretta Young), even if it plays like they might be lovers already, in the steamy pre-Code Employees’ Entrance, 1933.

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Worst Food In Town Cop Dixon (Dana Andrews) with witness Morgan (Gene Tierney), getting acquainted at the restaurant run by Martha (Ruth Donnelly), then taking a call from colleagues (Bert Freed, Karl Malden), in Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends, 1950.

Bells Of St. Mary's, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Was It St. Paul? Having just wisecracked about the cat, and unexpectedly met the entire faculty, when he’d just come to introduce himself to the Mother Superior and principal, Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), the new priest Fr. O’Malley (Bing Crosby) extemporizes, in The Bells Of St. Mary’s, 1945.

Pillow To Post (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Winifred's Strange And He's My Brother Ida Lupino is oil well equipment sales gal arriving amid a Southern California military housing crisis, with Anne O’Neal the USO lady, letting herself be mistaken for a military bride, then meeting Mrs. Wingate (Ruth Donnelly) and Lucile (Willie Best), in Pillow To Post, 1945.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) She Likes To Wrestle Cheesy process shot but new inmate Nan (Barbara Stanwyck) and veteran Linda (Lillian Roth) on fire, visiting Mrs. Arlington (Cecil Cunningham), Blondie (Helen Mann), Aunt Maggie (Maude Eburne) and a husky matron (Helen Dickson), in Ladies They Talk About, 1933.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Fresh Fish Like You Newly famous bank robber Nan (Barbara Stanwyck) strides into the cell block, an update from the reporter who put her away coming on the radio, as she faces down matron Noonan (Ruth Donnelly) and inmate Susie (Dorothy Burgess), in Ladies They Talk About, 1933.

Footlight Parade (1933) -- (Movie Clip) These Are Cats Not Elephants! Foreshadowing Andrew Lloyd Webber, dance director Francis (Frank McHugh) gets schooled by producer Chester (James Cagney) on the cat number, office helper Bea (Ruby Keeler) checking in, herself pursued by singer Scotty (Dick Powell), in Warner Bros.' Footlight Parade, 1933.

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Let That Be A Lesson To You Babe (Jean Arthur), with roommate (Ruth Donnelly), takes a call from Gary Cooper (title character) then frets about not telling him she’s the reporter writing the stories about him, then a famous bit with his valet (Raymond Walburn) et al, in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

This Is The Army - (Original Trailer) Irving Berlin's giant Broadway revue This Is The Army (1943) featuring a galaxy of stars mixing with servicemen.

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