Ruth Lee
Know for: Acting
Born: 1895-09-14
Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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It Happens Every Spring (1949)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Wild Is the Wind (1957)
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his...
Mama Loves Papa (1945)
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is...
My Tomato (1943)
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...
As You Were (1951)
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.
Not a Ladies' Man (1942)
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
The Witness (1942)
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...
The Trouble with Husbands (1940)
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...
Crime Control (1941)
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...
The Stranger (1946)
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of...
Divorce (1945)
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...
Tucson Raiders (1944)
In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then foils the crooked Sheriff's attempt to have Red...
The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's...
Hell's Outpost (1954)
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
High Society (1956)
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really...
Ding Dong Williams (1946)
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and...
Cover Up (1949)
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting...
How to Eat (1939)
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and...
Sued for Libel (1939)
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
Hers to Hold (1943)
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...
Idea Girl (1946)
Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat...
The Dark Horse (1946)
Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record...
Sister Kenny (1946)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...
Crime Wave (1953)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then...
The Magnificent Rogue (1946)
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle...
The World of Tomorrow (1984)
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's...
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his...
The Town Went Wild (1944)
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is...
Home Early (1939)
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
The Soul of a Monster (1944)
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Corpus Christi Bandits (1945)
After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the...
The Forgotten Man (1941)
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
Keeping in Shape (1942)
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
How to Take a Vacation (1941)
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
Dark Magic (1939)
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
When I Grow Up (1951)
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his...
And Then There Were Four (1950)
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to...
Get Hep to Love (1942)
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Henry, the Rainmaker (1949)
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is...
Annie Was a Wonder (1949)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...
Main Street Today (1944)
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...
Silver Skates (1943)
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Your Witness (1950)
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach...
Insurance Investigator (1951)
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator...
Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research...
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
Goin' to Town (1944)
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious...
Partners in Time (1946)
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young...
On Stage Everybody (1945)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Whirlpool (1950)
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous...
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky...
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.