Gordon, Ruth

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Name
Gordon, Ruth Gender: F
Ruth Gordon Jones
born on 30 October 1896 at 05:15 (= 05:15 AM )
Place Quincy, USA, 42n15, 71w00
Timezone EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source
News report
Rodden Rating A
Collector: McEvoy
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_scocol.18.svg 07°31' s_mo.18.svg s_leocol.18.svg 17°14 Asc.s_libcol.18.svg 24°55'



Ruth Gordon (1930)

Biography

American actress known for her nasal voice, distinctive personality, and for playing eccentric characters, as in the wonderfully macabre comedy, Harold and Maude (1971). She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in Rosemary's Baby (1968). Gordon wrote a half-dozen plays and several screenplays. She had two marriages and one son, Jones Harris, who married Heidi Vanderbilt.

Ruth Gordon died of a stroke on 18 August 1985 at age 88 in Edgartown, Massachusetts.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

  • has other family relationship with Vanderbilt, Heidi (born 20 July 1948). Notes: Mother-in-law/ daughter-in-law
  • role played of/by Lincoln, Mary Todd (born 13 December 1818). Notes: 1940 film "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"

Events

  • Work : Prize 1968 (Oscar as Best Supporting Actress)

Source Notes

Frances McEvoy quotes her in an interview with Michael Bamberger in the Boston Globe 8/08/84. She described her birth in detail as the doctor had thought her dead and tried to save her mother. "He tossed me off someplace and was working on my mom when suddenly there was a squeal and he gave me a few good slaps." The article said that the doctor had come at 5:00 AM and forthwith delivered the child without ceremony.

Categories

  • Traits : Body : Voice/Speech (Nasal)
  • Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Stroke (Terminal)
  • Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
  • Family : Relationship : Widowed (First husband, 1927)
  • Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One son)
  • Lifestyle : Social Life : Hobbies, games (Painting seascapes)
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 88)
  • Vocation : Business/Marketing : Product Marketing (Merchandise)
  • Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
  • Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Actor)
  • Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script
  • Notable : Awards : Emmy
  • Notable : Awards : Oscar (Best Supporting Actress)
  • Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women