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Ruth Gordon
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Screenwriter, Actor, Play Author Born: October 30, 1896 in Wollaston, MA Death: August 28, 1985 in Edgartown, MA Biography:The daughter of a former ship captain, "Ruth Gordon" knew what she wanted to do with her life after witnessing a performance by stage actress Hazel Dawn. Over the initial objections of her father, Gordon decided upon a stage career, studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After the usual deprivations and barnstorming (and a few extra roles in such films as "Camille" [1916]), she got her first positive newspaper notice for her Broadway debut in a 1915 production of Peter Pan. ""Ruth Gordon" was ever so gay as Nibs," wrote influential critic Alexander Woollcott, who became a valued and powerful friend to Gordon, and did what he could to encourage her and promote her career. With such stage hits as Seventeen, Serena Blandish, and Ethan Frome, Gordon was one of Broadway's biggest stars of the 1920s and '30s; privately, however, her life was blotted by the premature death of her first husband,... Full Biography
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