Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for her role as the oversolicitous neighbor in Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Roman Polański Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a celebrated Polish film director and actor. ... Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is an author of fiction thriller novels and is also a playwright and songwriter. ... Spoiler warning: Rosemarys Baby is the title of a 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, in which a young woman and her husband move into a New York City apartment next door to enthusiastic, oversolicitous neighbors. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

Born Ruth Gordon Jones in Quincy, Massachusetts, Gordon also starred as Maude in Hal Ashby's indie comedy Harold and Maude and as Mary Todd Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. She had a minor role as Clint Eastwood's mother in his films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can. Quincy is a city located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts and bears the nickname The City of Presidents. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 88,025. ... Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner. ... Harold and Maude is a 1971 movie, directed by Hal Ashby. ... Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the sixteenth First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served as the sixteenth President, from 1861 until 1865. ... Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his early days as a lawyer up until his election as President of the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Clint Eastwood today. ... Every Which Way But Loose is a 1978 U.S. motion picture, released by Warner Brothers, produced by Robert Daley and directed by James Fargo. ... Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 comedy movie,starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon. ...

Gordon attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and appeared in silent films shot in the first movie capital of the world, Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. That same year, she made her Broadway debut in Peter Pan, earning a favorable mention from the powerful critic Alexander Woolcott, who became a friend and mentor. Gordon suffered the death of her first husband, stage actor Gregory Kelly, in 1927. She continued to act on the stage for the next twenty years, including a notable run at London's Old Vic in The Country Wife. Gordon was a member of the infamous Algonquin Round Table, alongside such wits as Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. Like Parker, Gordon went to Hollywood briefly, appearing in a string of films in the early forties before becoming disillusioned and returning to New York to act in, and, increasingly, write plays. Gordon married writer Garson Kanin, several years her junior, in 1942. She had already mothered her only child, a son, born to her from a relationship between her marriages. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fully accredited two-year conservatory with campuses located at 120 Madison Avenue in New York City and 1336 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood. ... Fort Lee is the name of two places in the United States of America: Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee, Virginia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... Statue of Peter Pan in St. ... The Old Vic is a theatre in the Waterloo area of London. ... William Wycherley in 1675. ... The Algonquin Round Table was a group of some of the most brilliant writers of the 1920s and 1930s, though it endured long after that. ... Dorothy Parker, also known as Dot Parker or Dottie Parker, was born Dorothy Rothschild in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893. ... Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, and drama editor. ... Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. ...

Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib [1949] and Pat And Mike [1952]. Many people are not aware that the legendary onscreen relationship of Hepburn and Tracy is modeled on Gordon and Kanin's own marriage. Both of those screenplays were nominated for Oscars, as was another film directed by George Cukor, 1947's A Double Life. In 1953, The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a major Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress. Gordon would go on to write two volumes of autobiography in the seventies. She continued her acting career, and was nominated for a Tony as Best Actress in 1956 for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker. Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award for her film work in 1965's Inside Daisy Clover. She won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again in 1971 for the cult classic Harold and Maude. Gordon also won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for the 1978 episode "Sugar Mama," in which she tries to solicit the services of taxi driver Judd Hirsch as a male escort. A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... Image:ST3. ... Adams Rib is a 1949 American film in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play married lawyers who take opposing sides on a case in which a woman attempts to kill her adulterous husband. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... George Cukor George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. ... A Double Life is a 1947 film noir film which tells the story of an actor whose personal life takes on the characters that he is portraying. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face Jean Merilyn Simmons (born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom) is a British actress. ... Tony can mean any of the following: Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, and Anthony. ... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American novelist and playwright. ... The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder based on an 1842 play by the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy titled Einen Jux will er sich machen. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 film with Ruth Gordon based upon a novel by Gavin Lambert. ... Spoiler warning: Rosemarys Baby is the title of a 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, in which a young woman and her husband move into a New York City apartment next door to enthusiastic, oversolicitous neighbors. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Harold and Maude is a 1971 movie, directed by Hal Ashby. ... An Emmy Award. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Judd Hirsch Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series Taxi. ...

Many of her later roles found their appeal in the juxtaposition of her deceptively aged, diminutive form (she was 5'1") with her vigorous, off-beat, plucky determination. Upon winning the 1968 Academy Award, at the age of 72, and more than a half a century after her film debut, she exclaimed in her inimitable style, "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is." Indeed, she went on to appear in twenty-two more films and at least that many television appearances through her seventies and eighties, including such successful sitcoms as "Rhoda" (which earned her another Emmy nomination) and "Newhart", as well as the notable distinction of being the oldest host of Saturday Night Live, and countless talk show appearances, enjoying a legendary star status she had never before attained. Jump to: navigation, search Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ...

Harold and Maude and Adam's Rib have both been selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is the unofficial national library of the United States. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

Ruth Gordon died of a stroke in Edgartown, Massachusetts at the age of 88 in 1985. Edgartown is a town located on Marthas Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts. ...

External link

• Ruth Gordon at the Internet Movie Database