Ruth Clifford

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916). By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy...

Known for

Sunset BoulevardMovie • 1950The SearchersMovie • 19563 GodfathersMovie • 1948Funny GirlMovie • 1968The Phantom of the OperaMovie • 1925The Quiet ManMovie • 1952My Darling ClementineMovie • 1946Holiday InnMovie • 1942Leave Her to HeavenMovie • 1945The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitMovie • 1956The LodgerMovie • 1944Ball of FireMovie • 1941Drums Along the MohawkMovie • 1939The Wings of EaglesMovie • 1957Sergeant RutledgeMovie • 1960The Keys of the KingdomMovie • 1944Two Rode TogetherMovie • 1961Wagon MasterMovie • 1950WhirlpoolMovie • 1950The Last HurrahMovie • 1958The CobwebMovie • 1955Mickey's Delayed DateMovie • 1947Cry of the CityMovie • 1948Pluto's Christmas TreeMovie • 1952