Ruth A Sobotka was an Austrian-born American dancer, costume designer, art director, painter, and actress.
12 Facts About Ruth Sobotka
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Ruth Sobotka was the second wife of film director Stanley Kubrick.
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The daughter and only child of Austrian architect and interior designer, Walter Sobotka and Viennese actress, Gisela Schonau, Ruth Sobotka immigrated to the United States from Vienna with her parents in 1938.
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Ruth Sobotka studied set design at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
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Ruth Sobotka designed the costumes for and danced in the Jerome Robbins' ballet The Cage and played Robbins' wife in Tyl Eulenspiegel.
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Ruth Sobotka appeared in many Balanchine ballets including The Four Temperaments ; Serenade, Apollo, Symphony in C ; Swan Lake ; Concerto Barocco, The Nutcracker ; Ivesiana ; Agon ; and The Figure in the Carpet.
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Ruth Sobotka danced in James Waring's company and for major American choreographers and designed costumes for works by Paul Taylor, Erick Hawkins, and John Taras.
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Ruth Sobotka danced on Broadway in the musicals Sadie Thompson and the Balanchine revival of On Your Toes.
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Ruth Sobotka appeared in a cameo role of the ballerina "Iris" in Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss, performing choreography by David Vaughan, and served as art director of Kubrick's subsequent feature, The Killing.
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Ruth Sobotka appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions, including Charlotta Ivanovna in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard at Theatre Four in November, 1962, and was a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre during their first season in 1963, playing Cordelia in King Lear.
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Ruth Sobotka was the second wife of film director Stanley Kubrick.
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On June 17,1967, Ruth Sobotka died at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital after a brief illness, aged 41.