Ruth Clifford

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916). By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck. Clifford's obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she "became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era".

Cast

Mr. Celebrity

(Woman In Convertible)

As Man Desires

(Gloria Gordon)

The Invisible Ray

(Mystery)

The Devil's Apple Tree

(Jane Morris)

Wagon Master

(Fleuretty Phyffe)

Pluto's Christmas Tree

(Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited))

Holiday Inn

(Guest at Inn (uncredited))

Mickey's Delayed Date

(Minnie Mouse)

First Aiders

(Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited))

Hell's Hole

(Dorothy Owen)

Donald's Dream Voice

(Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited))

You're My Everything

(Nurse (uncredited))

The Cobweb

(Mrs. Jenkins)

Mother Wore Tights

(Resort Guest (uncredited))

The Keys of the Kingdom

(Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited))

Bath Day

(Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited))

Midnight Madness

(Gertrude Temple)

The Face on the Barroom Floor

(Marion Trevor)

Funny Girl

(Maid (uncredited))

Tropical Love

(Rosario)

Key to the City

(Mrs. Anderson (uncredited))

The Luck of the Irish

(Secretary)

The Constant Woman

(Speakeasy Floozie)

The Hitchhiker

(Adolph's Wife)

Woman Unafraid

(Kate)

My Dad

(Dawn)

To Mary - with Love

(Nurse)

Leave Her to Heaven

(Telephone Operator (uncredited))

Cry of the City

(Nurse)

Father Was a Fullback

(Neighbor)

Stolen Harmony

(Nurse (uncredited))

Sergeant Rutledge

(Officer's Wife (uncredited))

Paddy O'Day

(Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger)

Face in the Sky

(Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited))

Not Wanted

(Mrs. Stone)

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

(Friend of Miss Fane)

Wife, Husband and Friend

(Seamstress)

Swanee River

(Bit Role)

Along the Rio Grande

(Paula)

Pluto's Sweater

(Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited))

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

(Mrs. Finney)

She Married Her Boss

(Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited))

The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

(Herself)

The Last Hurrah

(Nurse (uncredited))

My Darling Clementine

(Opera House Patron (uncredited))

Free For All

(Miss Berry (uncredited))

Hollywood Boulevard

(Nurse (uncredited))

Circumstantial Evidence

(Bridge Player (uncredited))

It Happened in Flatbush

(Ruth (uncredited))

Blue, White, and Perfect

(Ship's Passenger (uncredited))

The Quiet Man

(Mother (uncredited))

Sunset Boulevard

(Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited))

Lillian Russell

(Extra)

Hazard

(Waitress (uncredited))

Two Rode Together

(Woman (uncredited))

Pilgrimage

Free, Blonde and 21

(Nurse)

Road to Happiness

(Ship Passenger (uncredited))

3 Godfathers

(Woman in Bar (uncredited))

The Lodger

(Hairdresser (uncredited))

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

(Graduation Spectator (uncredited))

The Dangerous Age

(Gloria Sanderson)

The Searchers

(Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited))

Brooding Eyes

(Joan Ayre)

Making the Rounds

Four Men and a Prayer

(Telephone Operator (uncredited))

Coney Island

(Saloon Patron)

Safety in Numbers

(Mrs. Hensley)

The Cabaret Girl

(Ann Reid)

The Desire of the Moth

(Stella Vorhis)

Behind the Lines

(Camilla)

The Whispered Name

(Anne Gray)

The Door Between

(Heloise Crocker)

Fires of Youth

(Lucille Linforth)

The Savage

(Marie Louise)

A Kentucky Cinderella

(Nannie)

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

(Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart)

The Game's Up

(Ruth Elliott)

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

(Clara Hawthorne)

Mickey's Family Album

(Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice))

The Tornado

(Ruth Travers)

Only Yesterday

(Eleanor (Uncredited))

April Showers

(Miriam Welton)

The Phantom of the Opera

(Ballerina (uncredited))

Show of Shows

(Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited))

The Spider

(Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

(Nurse)

The Thrill Seekers

(Adrean Wainwright)

Ball of Fire

(Chorus Girl (uncredited))

Whirlpool

(Nurse Eliott (uncredited))

Designing Woman

(Vanessa Cole)

Butterfly

(Hilary Collier)

Hands Down

(Hilda Stuyvesant)

Don Mike

(Mary Kelsey)

Mother o' Mine

(Catherine Thurston)

Eternal Love

(Mignon)

The Lure of Luxury

(Dale Aldis)

Drums Along the Mohawk

(Pioneer Woman (uncredited))

Hungry Eyes

(Mary Jane Appleton)

Shock

(Mrs. Margaret Cross)

Cadet Girl

(Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited))

Figaro and Frankie

(Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited))

Ponjola

(Gay Lypiatt)

Polly Put the Kettle On

(Polly Vance)

The Eternal Woman

(Doris Forbes)

The Millionaire Pirate

(The Girl)

Stand Up and Cheer!

(Secretary)