Ruth Roland (August 26, 1892 - September 22, 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer. August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville. Hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, she appeared in her first film for Kalem Studios in 1909 and along with Gene Gauntier was soon billed as a "Kalem Girl." Roland was eventually sent to Kalem's West Coast studio where she was the lead actress and overseer of "Kalem House" where all the actors lived. The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Sidney Olcott (September 20, 1873 - December 16, 1949) was a Canadian producer, director, actor and writer. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Gene Gauntier (May 17, 1885 - December 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter and actress. ... See: West Coast of the United States West Coast, New Zealand West Coast, Tasmania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Ruth Roland left Kalem and went on to even more fame when in 1915 she appeared in a 14-episode adventure film serial titled "The Red Circle." A shrewd businessperson, she established her own production company and signed a distribution deal with Pathé to make six new multi-episode serials that proved very successful. Adventure film is a film genre containing elements of adventure. ... Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ... Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France. ...

Ruth Roland Serials, Inc.: (each 15 episodes)

• The Adventures of Ruth (1919)
• Ruth of the Rockies (1920)
• White Eagle (1922)
• The Timber Queen (1922)
• The Haunted Valley (1923)
• Ruth of the Range (1923)

Between 1909 and 1927 Ruth Roland appeared in more than 190 films and more than 100 serial episodes. She left the film business until 1930 when she made her first talkie. Although her voice worked well enough on screen, now entering her forties she returned to performing in live theatre, making only one more film appearance in 1935. A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ...

Ruth Roland died of cancer in 1937 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... ... Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn. ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 79. ...

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Ruth Roland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6260 Hollywood Blvd. An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ...

External link

• Ruth Roland at the Internet Movie Database