Ruth Gordon

When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, the captain of the navy, to leave her job she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He worked for a few months in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. He made his Broadway debut on "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. For the next 20 years he spent on stage, even appearing at the Old Vic in London on the successful continuation of "The Country Wife" in 1936. Almost 25 years after his film debut, he briefly returned to the movies. Her most memorable role during this time in the early 1940s was as Mary Todd in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940). He left Hollywood to return to the theater. Back in New York, she married Garson Kanin in 1942 (her first husband Gregory Kelly, a stage actor, died in 1927). She started writing plays, and later, her husband collaborated with her in the paths of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, whose screen relationships were imitated in their marriage. He returned to film theater in the 1960s. It was in this final period of his career that he became a movie star, with memorable roles in Rosemary's Child (1968) and Harold and Maude (1971). He wrote several books in the mid-1970s and appeared on TV. She won an Emmy for her role in Taxi (1978) in 1979.