Ruth Attaway was an American film and stage actress.
13 Facts About Ruth Attaway
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Ruth Attaway's siblings included a sister, Florence, and a brother, novelist and writer William.
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Ruth Attaway made her Broadway debut in 1936 in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, You Can't Take It with You.
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Ruth Attaway was the first director of the New York Players Guild, a black repertory theater company formed in New York in 1945.
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From 1954 to 1955, Ruth Attaway portrayed Anna Hicks in the play Mrs Patterson at the National Theater.
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From 1964 to 1967, Ruth Attaway was with the Repertory Society of Lincoln Center.
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Ruth Attaway made her film debut by portraying Moll in The President's Lady, opposite Susan Hayward and Charlton Heston.
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In 1954, Ruth Attaway was within the cast of an unaired pilot titled Three's Company.
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Ruth Attaway played Delia in the 1978 television movie, The Bermuda Depths.
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On November 10,1953, Ruth Attaway was one of three people cited by the Coordinating Council For Negro Performers at a special benefit in Harlem.
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Ruth Attaway was married to Allan Morrison, an editor of Ebony.
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Ruth Attaway died on May 29,1968, at the age of 51.
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Ruth Attaway died on September 21,1987, in New York Hospital of injuries resulting from a Manhattan apartment fire.