Ruth Roman: Blurbs
TRIVIA
- After her death Ruth was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea. edit »
- Had a bit part in the 1946 Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca. edit »
- Co-starred with Milton Berle in the 1949 film Always Leave Them Laughing. edit »
- Ruth Roman appeared in only three films during the 1960's preferring to concentrate on TV work and raising her son. edit »
- Was among many contract players released by Universal studio in 1957. The same thing had happened or would happen at nearly every studio in Hollywood. edit »
- Left Warner Brothers studio after the birth of her son in 1952. Later signed on with Universal studio. edit »
- Once had an Appaloosa racehorse named after her. edit »
- According to Hollywood lore, Roman was once a knife thrower at a carnival in Revere Beach, MA during her teens. edit »
- Played villainous roles on episodes of The Untouchables, Tarzan, and Mission: Impossible among other TV guest shots although she frequently played sympathetic parts in her movie appearances. edit »
- Began acting at age 9 in community theatre. edit »
- Won the Sarah Siddons Award for outstanding stage work in Chicago theatre in 1959. edit »
- Son Richard Hall was born in 1952. edit »
- Co-starred in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Strangers on a Train, with Farley Granger and Robert Walker. edit »
- Co-starred with Kirk Douglas in the 1949 boxing film Champion. edit »
- First major film role was as the title character in the serial Jungle Queen. edit »
- Real name was Norma Roman. edit »
- Roman was a graduate of the Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston. edit »
- Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. edit »
- Ruth Roman was married three times. She was married to Mortimer Hall from 1950-55, to Budd Moss from 1956-64, and to Bill Wilson from 1974 until her death in 1999. She had one son with Hall named Richard. edit »
- Ruth Roman and her four year old son, Dickie, were real life survivors of the crash of the cruise ship Andrea Doria in 1956. The ship collided with a Swedish liner off the coast of Nantucket. Roman and her young son became separated during the rescue and she spent several anxious hours on shore awaiting his arrival in a different rescue boat. edit »
- Dated Ronald Reagan for a time in the late 1940's. edit »
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