Ruth Rogers

Acting

Ruth Rogers

Born April 19, 1918 · Tracy, California, USA

Died October 9, 1953 · aged 35

Ruth Rogers was born on October 4, 1918 in Tracy, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Hidden Gold (1940), Silver on the Sage (1939) and The Night Riders (1939). She died on October 9, 1953. She entered a beauty contest in Spokane, Washington hoping to win a screen test, but lost. She returned to her job as a cashier where she was discovered by a talent scout.

Known For

Bluebeard's Eighth WifeBluebeard's Eighth Wife · 1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
★ 7.01938
MovieComedyRomance
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
You and MeYou and Me · 1938
You and Me
★ 6.61938
MovieCrimeRomance
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
If I Were KingIf I Were King · 1938
If I Were King
★ 7.11938
MovieAdventureHistory
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
The Texas Rangers Ride AgainThe Texas Rangers Ride Again · 1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
★ 5.61940
MovieWesternComedy
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
The Mad DoctorThe Mad Doctor · 1940
The Mad Doctor
★ 6.21940
MovieCrimeRomance
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Boy TroubleBoy Trouble · 1939
Boy Trouble
★ 6.01939
MovieFamilyDrama
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
The Light of Western StarsThe Light of Western Stars · 1940
The Light of Western Stars
★ 5.01940
MovieWesternRomance
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
Hidden GoldHidden Gold · 1940
Hidden Gold
★ 5.81940
MovieWestern
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.

Filmography

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Men with WingsMen with Wings · 1938
Men with Wings
★ 5.41938
MovieDrama
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

Girl

A Night at Earl Carroll'sA Night at Earl Carroll's · 1940
A Night at Earl Carroll's
★ 4.51940
MovieMusic
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.

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