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Ruth Nelson (actress)

January 07, 2023

Ruth Gloria Nelson (August 2, 1905 – September 12, 1992) was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Humoresque, 3 Women, The Late Show and Awakenings. She was the wife of John Cromwell, with whom she acted on multiple occasions.

Ruth Nelson
Promotional photograph for the film Wilson (1944)
Born
Ruth Gloria Nelson

(1905-08-02)August 2, 1905
Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.
DiedSeptember 12, 1992(1992-09-12) (aged 87)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1928–1991
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    (m. 1947; died 1979)​

Early life

 
Ruth Nelson (back row, third from left) with members of the Group Theatre in 1938

Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Nelson was the daughter of Sanford Leroy Nelson and vaudeville actress Eva Mudge.[1][2] She attended Immaculate Heart Convent School in Los Angeles,[3] studying first with Daniel Frohman[4] and then with Richard Boleslawski at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York City during the early 1920s.[3]

Career

 
Ruth Nelson as First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson in Wilson (1944)

Nelson made her stage debut in New York on April 4, 1928 at the Laboratory Theatre under Boleslawski's direction, portraying the title character in Jean-Jacques Bernard's Martine. Over the next two seasons, Nelson made two more appearances—in Checkhov's The Seagull and Vladimir Kirshon's Red Rust[5]—prior to becoming, in 1931, a charter member of the newly formed theatre collective, The Group Theatre, with whom she remained throughout its run from 1931 to 1941, receiving particular praise for her performance as the chief striker's wife in Clifford Odets' play, Waiting for Lefty.[6]

After the Group Theatre ended in 1941, Nelson relocated to Hollywood. Throughout the 1940s, she made a number of movies for 20th Century Fox and other Hollywood studios. One of these was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), directed by fellow Group Theatre member Elia Kazan. She also appeared in Kazan's film The Sea of Grass in 1947.

As her career began to take off, she was compelled to put things on hold when her husband, the director John Cromwell, a leading Roosevelt Democrat in the film industry, was falsely accused of Communism by actor Adolphe Menjou in front of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings on Hollywood in 1951[7] and his career went on to be blacklisted. While offered a New York stage role as a wife in what turned out to be Death of a Salesman, Nelson turned it down as she did most acting offers at this time to stay in Los Angeles and support Cromwell.[8]

Nelson had not made a Hollywood film for nearly 30 years when she appeared with her husband in 1977's 3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, and The Late Show, a film Robert Benton wrote and directed that Altman produced. The following year, she and Cromwell played husband and wife as the aged patriarchal grandparents in A Wedding, a comedy directed by Altman. In 1980, stepson James Cromwell appeared with Nelson in John Korty's made-for-TV movie A Christmas Without Snow; two years later, they appeared onstage together in the Public Theater's production of Botho Strauss's Three Acts of Recognition, staged by Richard Foreman.[9] Moreover, as early as 1968, Nelson had performed onstage under her stepson's direction, giving a well-received performance as Mary Tyrone in a regional production of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night;[10] reprising the role she'd first played on Broadway in 1957, initially as Florence Eldridge's understudy, and then as the permanent replacement for an ailing Fay Bainter during the show's national tour.[11] Both critic Claudia Cassidy and director—and Group Theatre co-founder—Robert Lewis judged Nelson's Mary Tyrone the finest they'd ever seen.[12][13][14]

Reviewing the 1966 revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth staged by Douglas Campbell at Minnesota's Guthrie Theatre, critic Stanley Kauffmann writes:

He [Campbell] has helped Ruth Nelson to a performance of Mrs. Antrobus that is very easily the best of the three I have seen (two of them on Broadway).[a] She is matriarchal without being maudlin, and (which is as rare in art as in life) she reveals a human being under the Mother. Miss Nelson misses no nuance or reality that the part offers, and in one moment—when she mourns her murdered son—she touches true elegy.[17]

Nelson's final feature film appearance was in 1990's Awakenings; her performance—as the mother of a hospital patient played by Robert De Niro[18][19] (a role which—in a widely disseminated contemporaneous story published by Premiere Magazine—was erroneously reported as having gone to an Oscar-flaunting Shelley Winters)[20]—was singled out for praise by several critics,[21] including the Wall Street Journal's Julie Salamon: "Nelson achieves a wrenching beauty that stands out even among these exceptional actors doing exceptional things."[22] In her 2012 memoir, the film's director, Penny Marshall, recalls:

Ruth was a great lady. She was a New York stage actress in the 1930s who transitioned to movies but was blacklisted in the 1950s when her second husband was among those Senator Joseph McCarthy labeled a Communist. She was victimized by association and didn't work for three decades. When I met her, she was eighty-four and had battled a brain tumor and also had arthritis. I stared at her slender arms and gnarled hands. It looked like she had pushed her kid's arms and legs down for years. I liked her. I couldn't get her insured, but I didn't care. Neither did she. She wanted to do it. To me, that’s what the movie was about.[23]

Personal life

Nelson was married twice. She wed actor William Challee on August 2, 1931. They divorced in 1937.[24] In 1947, Nelson married actor/director John Cromwell, whom she had first met two years before on the set of Anna and the King of Siam.[25][26] The marriage lasted 32 years until Cromwell's death in 1979 from a pulmonary embolism.[27]

She was the stepmother of actor James Cromwell.

Nelson died on September 12, 1992 at her home in New York City from cancer complicated by a stroke and pneumonia.[8]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1943 The North Star Nadya Simonov
1944 None Shall Escape Alice Grimm
1944 The Eve of St. Mark Nell West
1944 Wilson Ellen Wilson
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom Lisbeth Chisholm
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Miss McDonough
1945 The Girl of the Limberlost Kate Comstock
1946 Shock Mrs. Margaret Cross Uncredited
1946 Sentimental Journey Mrs. McMasters
1946 Anna and the King of Siam Unknown Uncredited[26]
1946 Till the End of Time Amy Harper
1946 Humoresque Esther Boray
1947 The Sea of Grass Selina Hall, Sam Hall's Wife
1947 Mother Wore Tights Miss Ridgeway
1948 Arch of Triumph Madame Fessier
1977 The Late Show Mrs. Schmidt
1977 3 Women Mrs. Rose
1978 A Wedding Aunt Beatrice Sloan Cory
1989 Sea of Love Woman on the street
1990 Awakenings Mrs. Lowe

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1979 Visions Amelia "Ladies in Waiting"
1980 Ryan's Hope Mrs. Merck "1.1322"
1980 A Christmas Without Snow Inez TV film
1981 Hart to Hart Ida Cox "Blue Chip Murder"
1981 Skokie Grandma Jannsen TV film
1983 The Haunting Passion Judith Granville TV film
1991 Lethal Innocence Bernice TV film

Notes

  1. ^ Presumably, the performances to which Nelson's is being compared—that is, those seen in the only two productions staged on Broadway prior to this 1966 revival—are those by Florence Eldridge in the original 1942 production and Helen Hayes in 1955.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZZBV-F9W2 : 15 October 2021), Sanford Leroy Nelson and Genevra Delphine Mudge, 1904.
  2. ^ "Eva Mudge Gets Divorce". The Evening World. September 30, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Ruth Nelson, 87; Veteran Actress". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. September 14, 1992. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  4. ^ "Local Woman Visits Ex-charge, Now in 'Elizabeth, the Queen'". The Capital Times. May 6, 1931. p. 4. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  5. ^ "Ruth Nelson". IBDb.
  6. ^ Shipman, David (September 22, 1992). "Obituary: Ruth Nelson". The Independent. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  7. ^ "Cromwell" essay by Kingsley Canham, in World Film Directors, Vol. One 1890-1940 p. 158
  8. ^ a b Lambert, Bruce (September 13, 1992). "Ruth Nelson, 87, an Actress for Nearly 70 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  9. ^ Rich, Frank (April 8, 1982). "Theatre: 'Three Acts of Recognition,' Foreman Extravaganza'". The New York Times. pp. C11. ProQuest 2610466570. Some vignettes, as translated by Sophie Wilkins, are arresting. [...] Frank Maraden, as a failed actor, suddenly turns on a kindly old woman (Ruth Nelson) for giving him a birthday sweater purchased cheap at Woolworth's. [...] The cast members who fit best into Mr. Foreman's stylized scheme are Miss Nelson, Miss MacIntosh, James Cromwell, Cristine Rose, Bill Raymond (of the Mabou Mines), and Kate Manheim, that inimitable, ravaged siren of the anomic void. The others are either incompetent or waste time trying to create naturalistic characterizations when none are warranted.
  10. ^ Kelly, Kevin (April 23, 1968). "Perfection on Stage West". The Boston Globe. p. 33. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  11. ^ O'Neill, Pat (February 19, 1958). "Role at Nixon Is Arduous; Ruth Nelson Talks of Her Part in O'Neill Play; Actress Finds This Role a Drain on Energy; Husband, Noted Director, Says It Grips People". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p.20. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  12. ^ Cassidy, Claudia (May 4, 1964). "On the Aisle: In the Expanding Realm of Shakespeare Whodunit; How About Malvolio at Agincourt?". The Chicago Tribune. p. B3. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  13. ^ Harris, Dale (September 18, 1992). "Obituary: Ruth Nelson, Conscience of the Group". The Guardian. p. 35. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  14. ^ Lewis, Robert (1984). Slings and Arrows : Theater in my Life. New York: Stein and Day. p. 330. ISBN 0-8128-2965-4.
  15. ^ Ibee (November 25, 1952). "Plays on Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth". Variety. p. 52. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  16. ^ McCord, Bert (August 17, 1955). "'Skin of Our Teeth Opens at ANTA Theater Tonight". New York Herald Tribune. p. 16. ProQuest 1327289419. Helen Hayes and Mary Martin head the cast, with Miss Hayes playing Mrs. Antrobus and Miss Martin, Sabina.
  17. ^ Kauffmann, Stanley; New York Times Service. (June 2, 1966). "Campbell Praised for 'Crackling' 'Skin of Our Teeth' Production". Minneapolis Tribune. p. 45. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  18. ^ Maltin, Leonard (September 1991). "Awakenings". Video Review. Retrieved March 7, 2022
  19. ^ Agan, Patrick (1993). Robert De Niro: The Man, the Myth and the Movies. London: Robert Hale. pp. 187–188 ISBN 9780709052241. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  20. ^ "Shelley Winters Flaunts Talent". The Baltimore Sun. January 25, 1990. p. 2F. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  21. ^ Stone, Judy (December 20, 1990). "De Niro Shines in "Awakenings'". The San Francisco Chronicle. p. 4. ProQuest 302504282. For an all-too-brief time, he's free of the deeply symbiotic relationship with his too-devoted mother (Ruth Nelson, so splendidly shaken by his unexpected 'recovery'). See also:
    • Honeycutt, Kirk (December 13, 1990). "De Niro Shines in "Awakenings'". The Hollywood Reporter. pp. 9, 18. ProQuest 2610464859. The film's most tough-minded performance belongs to Ruth Nelson as Leonard's tenacious, white-haired mother. Having tended him for decades, she is overwhelmed by his recovery, yet better prepared to face its consequences than the doctors.
    • Carroll, Kathleen (December 20, 1990). "De Niro Rises and Shines in 'Awakenings'; Robin Williams and Ruth Nelson also touch the heart in this Tale of medical miracles". New York Daily News. p. 31, 39. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
    • Svitil, Torene (December 21, 1990). "Reviews: Awakenings". Screen International. p. 14. ProQuest 1014656550. Williams and Julie Kavner (who plays his nurse) are sympathetic and Ruth Nelson is flawless as his mother.
    • Agan, Patrick (1993). Robert De Niro: The Man, the Myth and the Movies. London: Robert Hale. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9780709052241.
  22. ^ Salamon, Julie (December 20, 1990). "Real Rip van Winkles in 'Awakenings'". The Wall Street Journal. pp. A14. ProQuest 135423138..
  23. ^ Marshall, Penny (2012). My Mother Was Nuts: A Memoir. Boston: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-0-547-89262-7.
  24. ^ "COURT ACTIONS FILED". Reno Gazette-Journal. August 13, 1937.
  25. ^ "PURELY PERSONAL". Los Angeles Times. September 10, 1947.
  26. ^ a b Sullivan, Dan (May 31, 1964). "Nun Launches a Star for Guthrie Theater". Minneapolis Tribune. p. 1 Ent.. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  27. ^ "John Cromwell – Hollywood Star Walk". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. October 1, 1979. Retrieved September 10, 2013.

Further reading

Articles

  • "Ruth Nelson, daughter of Eva Mudge". Variety. April 28, 1906. p. 5
  • "Actress Who Saved Life With Flag, And Her Globe-Trotting Daughter; American Flag Saves Actress in Strike Riot; South African Miners Respected Ensign as Emblem of Liberty, Mrs. Nelson Declares". The New York World. February 6, 1914. p. 2
  • Mantle, Burns (April 6. 1928). "Laboratorians Produce a Play". New York Daily News.
  • Peak, Mayme Ober (December 18, 1943). "I Cover Hollywood: Former Boston Newsman to Play Woodrow Wilson". The Boston Globe. p. 12
  • "Keys a Superlative Religious Hit; Production, Direction and Gregory Peck—All Bid for Academy Awards". Hollywood Motion Picture Review. December 18, 1944. p. 2
  • "Ruth Nelson Stars in 'Humoresque; Character Actress in Old Newsboys' Show". The Pittsburgh Press. December 3, 1946. p. 27
  • Kissel, Howard (March 30, 1990). "Times's Passage Melts 'Crucible'". New York Daily News. p. 43
  • Watt, Doug (April 6, 1990). "Second Thoughts on First Nights: Miller's Timelessness, Sorkin's Trifle". New York Daily News. p. 39

Books

  • Hailey, Kendall (1989). The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the advice, adventures, and acrimonies that befell me thereafter. New York: Dell. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9780440550136.
  • Smith, Wendy (1990). Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940. New York: Alfred A Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57445-1.
  • Bloom, Ken (2004). "Belasco Theatre". Broadway, Its History, People, and Places: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0415937043.
  • Schickel, Richard (2005). Elia Kazan: A Biography. New York: Harper Perennial. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-06-019579-3.

External links

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Ruth Gloria Nelson August 2 1905 September 12 1992 was an American stage and film actress She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Humoresque 3 Women The Late Show and Awakenings She was the wife of John Cromwell with whom she acted on multiple occasions Ruth NelsonPromotional photograph for the film Wilson 1944 BornRuth Gloria Nelson 1905 08 02 August 2 1905Saginaw Michigan U S DiedSeptember 12 1992 1992 09 12 aged 87 New York City U S OccupationActressYears active1928 1991SpousesWilliam Challee m 1931 div 1937 wbr John Cromwell m 1947 died 1979 wbr Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4 1 Film 4 2 Television 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 7 1 Articles 7 2 Books 8 External linksEarly life Edit Ruth Nelson back row third from left with members of the Group Theatre in 1938 Born in Saginaw Michigan Nelson was the daughter of Sanford Leroy Nelson and vaudeville actress Eva Mudge 1 2 She attended Immaculate Heart Convent School in Los Angeles 3 studying first with Daniel Frohman 4 and then with Richard Boleslawski at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York City during the early 1920s 3 Career Edit Ruth Nelson as First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson in Wilson 1944 Nelson made her stage debut in New York on April 4 1928 at the Laboratory Theatre under Boleslawski s direction portraying the title character in Jean Jacques Bernard s Martine Over the next two seasons Nelson made two more appearances in Checkhov s The Seagull and Vladimir Kirshon s Red Rust 5 prior to becoming in 1931 a charter member of the newly formed theatre collective The Group Theatre with whom she remained throughout its run from 1931 to 1941 receiving particular praise for her performance as the chief striker s wife in Clifford Odets play Waiting for Lefty 6 After the Group Theatre ended in 1941 Nelson relocated to Hollywood Throughout the 1940s she made a number of movies for 20th Century Fox and other Hollywood studios One of these was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 directed by fellow Group Theatre member Elia Kazan She also appeared in Kazan s film The Sea of Grass in 1947 As her career began to take off she was compelled to put things on hold when her husband the director John Cromwell a leading Roosevelt Democrat in the film industry was falsely accused of Communism by actor Adolphe Menjou in front of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings on Hollywood in 1951 7 and his career went on to be blacklisted While offered a New York stage role as a wife in what turned out to be Death of a Salesman Nelson turned it down as she did most acting offers at this time to stay in Los Angeles and support Cromwell 8 Nelson had not made a Hollywood film for nearly 30 years when she appeared with her husband in 1977 s 3 Women directed by Robert Altman and The Late Show a film Robert Benton wrote and directed that Altman produced The following year she and Cromwell played husband and wife as the aged patriarchal grandparents in A Wedding a comedy directed by Altman In 1980 stepson James Cromwell appeared with Nelson in John Korty s made for TV movie A Christmas Without Snow two years later they appeared onstage together in the Public Theater s production of Botho Strauss s Three Acts of Recognition staged by Richard Foreman 9 Moreover as early as 1968 Nelson had performed onstage under her stepson s direction giving a well received performance as Mary Tyrone in a regional production of O Neill s Long Day s Journey Into Night 10 reprising the role she d first played on Broadway in 1957 initially as Florence Eldridge s understudy and then as the permanent replacement for an ailing Fay Bainter during the show s national tour 11 Both critic Claudia Cassidy and director and Group Theatre co founder Robert Lewis judged Nelson s Mary Tyrone the finest they d ever seen 12 13 14 Reviewing the 1966 revival of Thornton Wilder s The Skin of Our Teeth staged by Douglas Campbell at Minnesota s Guthrie Theatre critic Stanley Kauffmann writes He Campbell has helped Ruth Nelson to a performance of Mrs Antrobus that is very easily the best of the three I have seen two of them on Broadway a She is matriarchal without being maudlin and which is as rare in art as in life she reveals a human being under the Mother Miss Nelson misses no nuance or reality that the part offers and in one moment when she mourns her murdered son she touches true elegy 17 Nelson s final feature film appearance was in 1990 s Awakenings her performance as the mother of a hospital patient played by Robert De Niro 18 19 a role which in a widely disseminated contemporaneous story published by Premiere Magazine was erroneously reported as having gone to an Oscar flaunting Shelley Winters 20 was singled out for praise by several critics 21 including the Wall Street Journal s Julie Salamon Nelson achieves a wrenching beauty that stands out even among these exceptional actors doing exceptional things 22 In her 2012 memoir the film s director Penny Marshall recalls Ruth was a great lady She was a New York stage actress in the 1930s who transitioned to movies but was blacklisted in the 1950s when her second husband was among those Senator Joseph McCarthy labeled a Communist She was victimized by association and didn t work for three decades When I met her she was eighty four and had battled a brain tumor and also had arthritis I stared at her slender arms and gnarled hands It looked like she had pushed her kid s arms and legs down for years I liked her I couldn t get her insured but I didn t care Neither did she She wanted to do it To me that s what the movie was about 23 Personal life EditNelson was married twice She wed actor William Challee on August 2 1931 They divorced in 1937 24 In 1947 Nelson married actor director John Cromwell whom she had first met two years before on the set of Anna and the King of Siam 25 26 The marriage lasted 32 years until Cromwell s death in 1979 from a pulmonary embolism 27 She was the stepmother of actor James Cromwell Nelson died on September 12 1992 at her home in New York City from cancer complicated by a stroke and pneumonia 8 Filmography EditFilm Edit Year Title Role Notes1943 The North Star Nadya Simonov1944 None Shall Escape Alice Grimm1944 The Eve of St Mark Nell West1944 Wilson Ellen Wilson1944 The Keys of the Kingdom Lisbeth Chisholm1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Miss McDonough1945 The Girl of the Limberlost Kate Comstock1946 Shock Mrs Margaret Cross Uncredited1946 Sentimental Journey Mrs McMasters1946 Anna and the King of Siam Unknown Uncredited 26 1946 Till the End of Time Amy Harper1946 Humoresque Esther Boray1947 The Sea of Grass Selina Hall Sam Hall s Wife1947 Mother Wore Tights Miss Ridgeway1948 Arch of Triumph Madame Fessier1977 The Late Show Mrs Schmidt1977 3 Women Mrs Rose1978 A Wedding Aunt Beatrice Sloan Cory1989 Sea of Love Woman on the street1990 Awakenings Mrs LoweTelevision Edit Year Title Role Notes1979 Visions Amelia Ladies in Waiting 1980 Ryan s Hope Mrs Merck 1 1322 1980 A Christmas Without Snow Inez TV film1981 Hart to Hart Ida Cox Blue Chip Murder 1981 Skokie Grandma Jannsen TV film1983 The Haunting Passion Judith Granville TV film1991 Lethal Innocence Bernice TV filmNotes Edit Presumably the performances to which Nelson s is being compared that is those seen in the only two productions staged on Broadway prior to this 1966 revival are those by Florence Eldridge in the original 1942 production and Helen Hayes in 1955 15 16 References Edit Ohio County Marriages 1789 2016 database with images FamilySearch https www familysearch org ark 61903 1 1 ZZBV F9W2 15 October 2021 Sanford Leroy Nelson and Genevra Delphine Mudge 1904 Eva Mudge Gets Divorce The Evening World September 30 1914 p 7 Retrieved October 25 2022 a b Ruth Nelson 87 Veteran Actress Los Angeles Times Tribune Company September 14 1992 Retrieved September 10 2013 Local Woman Visits Ex charge Now in Elizabeth the Queen The Capital Times May 6 1931 p 4 Retrieved October 25 2022 Ruth Nelson IBDb Shipman David September 22 1992 Obituary Ruth Nelson The Independent Retrieved September 10 2013 Cromwell essay by Kingsley Canham in World Film Directors Vol One 1890 1940 p 158 a b Lambert Bruce September 13 1992 Ruth Nelson 87 an Actress for Nearly 70 Years The New York Times Retrieved September 10 2013 Rich Frank April 8 1982 Theatre Three Acts of Recognition Foreman Extravaganza The New York Times pp C11 ProQuest 2610466570 Some vignettes as translated by Sophie Wilkins are arresting Frank Maraden as a failed actor suddenly turns on a kindly old woman Ruth Nelson for giving him a birthday sweater purchased cheap at Woolworth s The cast members who fit best into Mr Foreman s stylized scheme are Miss Nelson Miss MacIntosh James Cromwell Cristine Rose Bill Raymond of the Mabou Mines and Kate Manheim that inimitable ravaged siren of the anomic void The others are either incompetent or waste time trying to create naturalistic characterizations when none are warranted Kelly Kevin April 23 1968 Perfection on Stage West The Boston Globe p 33 Retrieved August 28 2022 O Neill Pat February 19 1958 Role at Nixon Is Arduous Ruth Nelson Talks of Her Part in O Neill Play Actress Finds This Role a Drain on Energy Husband Noted Director Says It Grips People Pittsburgh Post Gazette p 20 Retrieved September 2 2022 Cassidy Claudia May 4 1964 On the Aisle In the Expanding Realm of Shakespeare Whodunit How About Malvolio at Agincourt The Chicago Tribune p B3 Retrieved September 2 2022 Harris Dale September 18 1992 Obituary Ruth Nelson Conscience of the Group The Guardian p 35 Retrieved September 2 2022 Lewis Robert 1984 Slings and Arrows Theater in my Life New York Stein and Day p 330 ISBN 0 8128 2965 4 Ibee November 25 1952 Plays on Broadway The Skin of Our Teeth Variety p 52 Retrieved September 6 2022 McCord Bert August 17 1955 Skin of Our Teeth Opens at ANTA Theater Tonight New York Herald Tribune p 16 ProQuest 1327289419 Helen Hayes and Mary Martin head the cast with Miss Hayes playing Mrs Antrobus and Miss Martin Sabina Kauffmann Stanley New York Times Service June 2 1966 Campbell Praised for Crackling Skin of Our Teeth Production Minneapolis Tribune p 45 Retrieved September 6 2022 Maltin Leonard September 1991 Awakenings Video Review Retrieved March 7 2022 Agan Patrick 1993 Robert De Niro The Man the Myth and the Movies London Robert Hale pp 187 188 ISBN 9780709052241 Retrieved March 7 2022 Shelley Winters Flaunts Talent The Baltimore Sun January 25 1990 p 2F Retrieved September 12 2022 Stone Judy December 20 1990 De Niro Shines in Awakenings The San Francisco Chronicle p 4 ProQuest 302504282 For an all too brief time he s free of the deeply symbiotic relationship with his too devoted mother Ruth Nelson so splendidly shaken by his unexpected recovery See also Honeycutt Kirk December 13 1990 De Niro Shines in Awakenings The Hollywood Reporter pp 9 18 ProQuest 2610464859 The film s most tough minded performance belongs to Ruth Nelson as Leonard s tenacious white haired mother Having tended him for decades she is overwhelmed by his recovery yet better prepared to face its consequences than the doctors Carroll Kathleen December 20 1990 De Niro Rises and Shines in Awakenings Robin Williams and Ruth Nelson also touch the heart in this Tale of medical miracles New York Daily News p 31 39 Retrieved September 12 2022 Svitil Torene December 21 1990 Reviews Awakenings Screen International p 14 ProQuest 1014656550 Williams and Julie Kavner who plays his nurse are sympathetic and Ruth Nelson is flawless as his mother Agan Patrick 1993 Robert De Niro The Man the Myth and the Movies London Robert Hale pp 187 188 ISBN 9780709052241 Salamon Julie December 20 1990 Real Rip van Winkles in Awakenings The Wall Street Journal pp A14 ProQuest 135423138 Marshall Penny 2012 My Mother Was Nuts A Memoir Boston New Harvest Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pp 239 240 ISBN 978 0 547 89262 7 COURT ACTIONS FILED Reno Gazette Journal August 13 1937 PURELY PERSONAL Los Angeles Times September 10 1947 a b Sullivan Dan May 31 1964 Nun Launches a Star for Guthrie Theater Minneapolis Tribune p 1 Ent Retrieved September 6 2022 John Cromwell Hollywood Star Walk Los Angeles Times Tribune Company October 1 1979 Retrieved September 10 2013 Further reading EditArticles Edit Ruth Nelson daughter of Eva Mudge Variety April 28 1906 p 5 Actress Who Saved Life With Flag And Her Globe Trotting Daughter American Flag Saves Actress in Strike Riot South African Miners Respected Ensign as Emblem of Liberty Mrs Nelson Declares The New York World February 6 1914 p 2 Mantle Burns April 6 1928 Laboratorians Produce a Play New York Daily News Peak Mayme Ober December 18 1943 I Cover Hollywood Former Boston Newsman to Play Woodrow Wilson The Boston Globe p 12 Keys a Superlative Religious Hit Production Direction and Gregory Peck All Bid for Academy Awards Hollywood Motion Picture Review December 18 1944 p 2 Ruth Nelson Stars in Humoresque Character Actress in Old Newsboys Show The Pittsburgh Press December 3 1946 p 27 Kissel Howard March 30 1990 Times s Passage Melts Crucible New York Daily News p 43 Watt Doug April 6 1990 Second Thoughts on First Nights Miller s Timelessness Sorkin s Trifle New York Daily News p 39Books Edit Hailey Kendall 1989 The Day I Became an Autodidact And the advice adventures and acrimonies that befell me thereafter New York Dell pp 104 105 ISBN 9780440550136 Smith Wendy 1990 Real Life Drama The Group Theatre and America 1931 1940 New York Alfred A Knopf ISBN 0 394 57445 1 Bloom Ken 2004 Belasco Theatre Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia New York Routledge pp 60 61 ISBN 0415937043 Schickel Richard 2005 Elia Kazan A Biography New York Harper Perennial p 13 ISBN 978 0 06 019579 3 External links EditRuth Nelson at the Internet Broadway Database Ruth Nelson at the Internet Off Broadway Database Ruth Nelson at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia 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