12 Facts About Ruby Dandridge

Ruby Jean Dandridge was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s.

Ruby Dandridge is recognized for her role in the 1959 movie A Hole in the Head as Sally.

Ruby Dandridge's parents were Nellie Simon, a maid, and George Butler, who was a janitor, grocer and entertainer.

In 1937, Ruby Dandridge played one of the witches in what an article in The Pittsburgh Courier called a "sepia representation" of Macbeth in Los Angeles.

Ruby Dandridge played Oriole on both radio and TV versions of The Beulah Show, and Geranium in The Judy Canova Show, and was a regular cast member on Tonight at Hoagy's.

Ruby Dandridge is heard as Raindrop on Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.

For one season, Ruby Dandridge played the maid on the television version of Father of the Bride.

Also in the 1950s, Ruby Dandridge formed a nightclub act that played in clubs around Los Angeles.

Ruby Dandridge moved with her husband to Cleveland, Ohio, where her daughter, actress Vivian Ruby Dandridge, was born in 1921.

Ruby Dandridge's second daughter, Academy Award-nominated actress Dorothy Dandridge, was born there in 1922, five months after Ruby and Cyril divorced.

On October 17,1987, Ruby Dandridge died of a heart attack at a nursing home in Los Angeles, California.

Ruby Dandridge was interred next to Dorothy at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.