1. Ruth Roman appeared in several uncredited bit parts before she was cast as the leading lady in the Western Harmony Trail and in the title role in the serial film Jungle Queen, her first credited film performances.
37 Facts About Ruth Roman
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Ruth Roman first starred in the title role of Belle Starr's Daughter.
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Ruth Roman worked abroad and made films in England, Italy, and Spain.
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Ruth Roman was a passenger aboard the SS Andrea Doria when it collided with another ship and sank in 1956.
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Norma Ruth Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Mary Pauline and Abraham "Anthony" Ruth Roman.
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Ruth Roman was renamed "Ruth" when a fortune teller told her mother that "Norma" was an unlucky name.
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Ruth Roman's mother was a dancer, and her father a barker in a carnival sideshow that they owned at Revere Beach, Massachusetts.
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Ruth Roman's father died when Ruth was eight, and her mother sold the sideshow.
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Ruth Roman then pursued her desire to become an actress by enrolling in the prestigious Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston.
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Ruth Roman moved to Hollywood, where she obtained bit parts in several films such as Stage Door Canteen, Ladies Courageous, Since You Went Away, Song of Nevada, and Storm Over Lisbon.
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Ruth Roman had a featured role in Harmony Trail, but continued to be mostly unbilled in films such as Ruth Roman Gets Her Man.
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Ruth Roman was cast in the title role in the 13-episode serial Jungle Queen.
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Ruth Roman sold two of them: The House of the Seven Garbos and The Whip Song.
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Ruth Roman's career began to improve in the late 1940s when she was cast in a featured role in the 1948 release Good Sam.
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In recognition of Ruth Roman's rising status as an actress, Warner Bros.
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Ruth Roman played a distraught mother waiting to learn whether or not her child survived an airplane crash.
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Ruth Roman got top billing in Lightning Strikes Twice, directed by King Vidor with Richard Todd.
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Ruth Roman was Farley Granger's love interest in Strangers on a Train, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Ruth Roman was top-billed as well in the 1951 thriller Tomorrow Is Another Day, co-starring Steve Cochran.
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Ruth Roman was loaned to MGM for Invitation, then co-starred with Errol Flynn in Mara Maru.
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Ruth Roman went back to MGM to play Glenn Ford's love interest in Young Man with Ideas and was reunited with Cooper in Blowing Wild, only this time she was billed beneath Barbara Stanwyck.
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Ruth Roman went to Universal to play Van Heflin's love interest in Tanganyika.
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Ruth Roman appeared in the Western Rebel in Town and was top-billed in 5 Steps to Danger.
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Ruth Roman was in Bitter Victory and went to Italy to star in Desert Desperados.
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In 1959, Ruth Roman won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.
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Ruth Roman worked regularly in films well up to the late 1950s.
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Ruth Roman guest-starred in NBC's Bonanza and Sam Benedict, ABC's The Bing Crosby Show sitcom and its circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth starring Jack Palance, as well as Burke's Law starring Gene Barry and I Spy featuring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby.
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Ruth Roman appeared as a fiery redhead in an episode of Gunsmoke.
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Ruth Roman appeared in the early 1960s in the medical dramas The Eleventh Hour and Breaking Point.
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Ruth Roman starred in a season 3 episode of Mission: Impossible titled "The Elixir" as Riva Santel as well as a Season 2 episode of Naked City.
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In 1960, Ruth Roman was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard for her contribution to television.
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Ruth Roman had one son, Richard Roman Hall on November 12,1952, with husband Mortimer Hall, son of publisher Dorothy Schiff.
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Ruth Roman was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.
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In July 1956, Ruth Roman was just finishing a trip to Europe with her three-year-old son Richard.
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Ruth Roman was in the Belvedere Lounge when the collision happened and immediately took off her high heels and scrambled back to her cabin barefoot to retrieve her sleeping son.
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Ruth Roman stepped into the next boat and was eventually rescued along with 750 other survivors from the Andrea Doria by the French passenger liner SS Ile de France.
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Ruth Roman died at the age of 76 in her sleep of natural causes at her beachfront villa on Crescent Bay in Laguna Beach, California, on September 9,1999.