Ruth Taylor
Also Known As: Ruth Alice Taylor, Ruth Zuckerman
Biography: Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son was the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry (real name Henry Zuckerman).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Birthday: January 13, 1905
Deathday: April 12, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Headin' Home
Overview: The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-18
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The Soapsuds Lady
Overview: The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Wandering Willies
Overview: Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Her Actor Friend
Overview: Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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The Perils of Petersboro
Overview: The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Butter Fingers
Overview: The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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Flirty Four-Flushers
Overview: With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Cured in the Excitement
Overview: Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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The Jolly Jilter
Overview: Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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The College Kiddo
Overview: The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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For Sale, a Bungalow
Overview: For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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This Thing Called Love
Overview: A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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A Blonde's Revenge
Overview: Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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The Pride of Pikeville
Overview: Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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A Rainy Knight
Overview: Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Broke in China
Overview: Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-23
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Lucky Stars
Overview: Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-15
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-22
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Just Married
Overview: After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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The Iron Nag
Overview: A jail break turns into a race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-09
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A Yankee Doodle Duke
Overview: Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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The College Coquette
Overview: Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-08-05
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A Hint to Brides
Overview: When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
Overview: George Walsh plays the "prodigal" hero in this fast-moving star vehicle from the Fox factory. An incurable cut-up, Jack Spurlock throws a college campus in an uproar when he shows up the first day of classes with his pet bear. Needless to say, Jack is immediately booted out of college, infuriating his big-businessman father (Dan Mason).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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Wild Honey
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-09
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