Ruth Roman

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1922 age 0

   Born

2. 1946 age 24

   CreditGilda

3. 1951 age 29

   CreditStrangers on a Train

4. 1999 age 76

   Died

• BHBen Hecht2 titles
• SASam Anderson1 title
• BDBarry Dennen1 title
• SLScott Lawrence1 title
• GTGeorge Takei1 title
• DMDakin Matthews1 title
• GRGeorges Renavent1 title
• JBJean De Briac1 title
• JVJean Del Val1 title
• NVNorma Varden1 title

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  Photo:Modern Screen MagazinePublic domain

• Acting is my life. The profession can break my heart. In fact, it already has several times. But I love it.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm grateful to the [Warner Bros.] studio. They gave me a buildup I couldn't have gotten if I hadn't been under contract. I admit I worked hard. I did around eight pictures in one year. I scarcely had time to get married. I worked up until 7:30 on Strangers on a Train the night we were flying to Las Vegas to get married. That was a Saturday night, and I had to be back at work at 9:30 Monday morning. But I was lucky to have made all those pictures. I got good experience. Then I was off the screen for two years while raising a family. It was fortunate that I had that backlog of pictures.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm either very sweet or very bad in pictures, there seems to be no in-between.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My happiest 26 days in the movies were spent making the picture Champion. For, though you hear a great deal about teamwork in Hollywood, you almost never see as much of it as we did while shooting this film. Whenever there was a question about a scene, we'd hold a group conference, complete with producer, director and cast, to thrash the matter out. Each suggestion was not only considered but also thoroughly discussed. . . All this was immensely helpful to me in playing the role of Emma, for I was very young in pictures then, and this was quite a different type of role from the few I'd played.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• He surprised me on the second day of shooting by saying, "Do you know that this picture [Champion] is going to make you?" I couldn't believe that but Kirk insisted and even offered to make a bet on it. If I had taken the bet I would have lost, for the role of Emma did more for my career than any other role.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The scene [in Champion] I liked best was the one on the beach, and apparently a number of fans agreed with me. About half the letters I received asked for a picture of me in the bathing suit.

  Ruth Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0