Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon ( born October 30, 1896 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, † August 28 1985 in Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA ) was an American actress and playwright, who won the Academy Award for actress ( Rosemary's Baby ) and three times as a screenwriter was nominated.
Life
Gordon began her career as an actress on Broadway, where she became a well-known character actress soon. From the early 1940s, she joined the profession and began a second career as a screenwriter in Hollywood, mostly on the side of her second husband Garson Kanin. Together, they were nominated for three Oscars writer, always under George Cukor, in A Double Life ( 1947) and the most famous films of the two, the comedies marriage war of 1949 and Pat and Mike 1952 with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Cukor took over in 1953, the theater fever staging, the film adaptation of Gordon's autobiographical play Years Ago, it was played in the film by Jean Simmons.
In addition, Gordon wrote his own plays for themselves and their sometimes somewhat eccentric style of presentation. One of her greatest achievements was the comedy Over 21 whose film rights sold it in 1945 for his time considerable sum of $ 350,000 to Columbia Pictures. The main role in the film adaptation took Irene Dunne, prompting one critic to remark:
Gordon himself came again and again in more or less large supporting roles and was, as she has specialized in the representation of eccentric elderly ladies, towards the end of the 1960s, a movie star. A first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress she received in 1966 for her portrayal of the mother of Natalie Wood in damned sweet world. For her role in Rosemary's Baby, she was awarded in 1969 for best supporting actress with an Oscar and another Golden Globe Award. In the thriller A widow murders quietly from 1969 she mimed the antagonist to Geraldine Page. Among her most famous roles was her appearance in Harold and Maude from the year 1971. In the films The Man from San Fernando and Full Throttle to San Fernando she stepped into the role as Clint Eastwood's mother.
With the Broadway producer and screenwriter Jed Harris had a son named Jones ( born 1929 ).