Ruth Robinson

Ruth Robinson

Born: August 17, 1887
Died: March 17, 1966
in Topeka, Kansas, USA

Movies for Ruth Robinson...

Title: The Beulah Show
Character: Harry's Mother
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: TV
The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1952. The show is notable for being the first sitcom to star an African American actress.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: Mrs. Updyke (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Mrs. Flaherty (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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Impact
Title: Impact
Character: Apartment Manager
Released: March 20, 1949
Type: Movie
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Woman Deputy (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Title: The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Character: Mrs. Wentley
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
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The Kid Sister
Title: The Kid Sister
Character: Mrs. Hollingsworth
Released: February 6, 1945
Type: Movie
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Mrs. Petit
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Angela
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Lydia's Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Down Mexico Way
Title: Down Mexico Way
Character: Mercedes
Released: October 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Across the Sierras
Title: Across the Sierras
Character: Lu Woodworth
Released: February 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Mrs. Newbold (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Molly - Gipp's Mother (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Discouraged Mormon
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Mother of Baby (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Miss Simpson
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Blanche - Ellen's Maid
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Covered Wagon Days
Title: Covered Wagon Days
Character: Mama Rinaldo
Released: April 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are buying cheap silver in Mexico and smuggling it into the States, where they can take advantage of a silver stabilizing measure and sell it at a high price.
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In Old Missouri
Title: In Old Missouri
Character: Farmer's Wife
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Nurse in the Nursery (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.
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The Kansas Terrors
Title: The Kansas Terrors
Character: Juanita
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribbean island. Here they join forces with Rico to topple the regime of a despotic commandante.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Townswoman
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Mrs. Hanna
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Head Matron (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Margaret Chandler (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Weather Wizards
Title: Weather Wizards
Character: Mrs. Morgan
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the citrus groves of Southern California. First, the scientists predict the storm's course, giving several days' warning to farmers and growers. The growers, typified by the Morgan family, prepare the oil-burning pots throughout their grove. Then, as the temperature dips below freezing, they light the pots. The cold snap continues as oil-supplies dwindle; the smoky air slows traffic, including trucks bringing more oil. The scientists strive to predict how long freezing temperatures will last: can the Morgans hold out?
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Nurse
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Updyke's Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
Title: The Lone Wolf in Paris
Character: The Queen of Arvonne
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
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Miracle Money
Title: Miracle Money
Character: Mrs. Saunders (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
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Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Townswoman
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Roll Along, Cowboy
Title: Roll Along, Cowboy
Character: Edwina Blake
Released: October 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Matron nurse (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Mrs. MacEwen's Friend
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Mrs. Scutter
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Mother Brunn
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Title: The Case of the Velvet Claws
Character: Mrs. Veite
Released: July 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Freida Freyman
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Mrs. Shaw
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Title: The Story of Louis Pasteur
Character: Mrs. Meister
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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Scarlet Youth
Title: Scarlet Youth
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with another woman, she leaves him and goes to work in a brothel, where she contracts a venereal disease.