Ruth Nelson

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Stage actress Ruth Nelson's biggest claim to fame was as one of the founding members of the famed New York-based "Group Theatre" back in the 30s and was well-received playing the cabby's wife in Clifford Odets' short play "Waiting for Lefty" in 1935. This role would typify Ruth's career as the non-flashy, blue-collar or "working class" wife, loyal to the bone. She blended in so well with her rather submissive delivery that she went by totally unnoticed when she moved to film parts in the 40s. She gave a restrained realism in her roles in The North Star (1943), Die Jahre der Jugend (1945), Begierde (1946), Endlos ist die Prärie (1947) and Die Betty vom Variete (1947), among others. Her second husband was director John Cromwell, who became a victim the "Red Scare" in the early 50s after being labeled a Communist. Ruth could have had a major career upswing with her important casting in the play "Death of a Salesman" but she felt compelled to turn it down when the role would have taken her to New York and away from her husband in Los Angeles who needed her support. She herself would be forced out of films for the next 30 years. Most of her work from the 50s on was on stage, notably a 1966 production of "The Skin of Our Teeth". It was director Robert Altman who finally induced her to return to films in 1977, featuring her in 3 Women (1977) and A Wedding (1978). Her last important movie role was as Robert De Niro's mom in Zeit des Erwachens (1990). Suffering from cancer, she died in 1992. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

Starz has the most number of Ruth Nelson’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Ruth Nelson on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1983 to 1990. See the full graphs of the number of Ruth Nelson movies released per year from 1983 till 1990.

Top Genres

Ruth Nelson works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Biography Genre flixes. 50% of Ruth Nelson movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Ruth Nelson worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Ruth Nelson has worked on is 6.8.

6.8 / 10

Ruth Nelson's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Drama
Awakenings (1990)

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

7.8/10121 min

Available in 10 platform(s).