#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Ruth Gordon - popcorn and red wine

Monday, March 26, 2018

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Ruth Gordon


  • To fix her bow-leggedness, checked into a Chicago hospital to have her legs broken then straightened.
  • Nominated for 5 Academy Awards for best screenplay
  • Adapted her own autobiographical play for the screen that chronicles her experience in telling her father she wanted to become an actress
  • Never married stage producer Jed Harris, but still bore his child and living together 
  • Wrote stage plays, books, and films during her five decades-long acting career
  • Was signed to MGM for ten years before doing her first film in Greta Garbo's last film "Two-Faced Woman" (1941)

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