Ruth Tobey

Ruth Tobey

Born: August 30, 1929
Died: April 15, 2008
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Ruth Tobey...

Janie Gets Married
Title: Janie Gets Married
Character: Bernadine Dodd
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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Delightfully Dangerous
Title: Delightfully Dangerous
Character: Molly Bradley
Released: March 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
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Janie
Title: Janie
Character: Bernadine Dodd
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
Title: Calling Dr. Gillespie
Character: Susan Prentiss
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Betty Regan (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Market Keeper's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Isobel (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Rebecca Gibbs
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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And One Was Beautiful
Title: And One Was Beautiful
Character: Zillah
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Mathilde (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.