Ruth Taylor

Acting

Ruth Taylor

Born 1905-01-13 · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son was the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry (real name Henry Zuckerman).

Acting credits

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes poster
10.0

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1928

Just Married poster
7.0

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Just Married

1928

The Soapsuds Lady poster
9.0

Betty’s parents are eager to achieve financial security and believe she is their ticket to wealth. They are easily deceived by a villain who poses as a rich man by wearing expensive, hired clothes. Despite her parents' pressure to marry the "wealthy" imposter, Betty is in love with Jack, a young man who once saved her life. Jack is currently engaged to a society girl he does not love. Through a series of fast-paced gags and fortunate circumstances, the two lovers manage to outmaneuver the villain and Betty's parents, eventually realizing their ambition to marry one another.

The Soapsuds Lady

1926

The College Coquette poster
10.0

Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.

The College Coquette

1929

The Perils of Petersboro poster
8.0

Alice Day is the pretty maid who wins the heart of Danny O'Shea, a young artist who motors down to Petersboro to paint the scenery.

The Perils of Petersboro

1926

A Blonde's Revenge poster
3.0

Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.

A Blonde's Revenge

1926

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NR

The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.

The Queen's Husband

1946

Broke in China poster
6.7

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

Broke in China

1927

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10.0

Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.

Her Actor Friend

1926

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8.0

Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.

A Yankee Doodle Duke

1926

The Pride of Pikeville poster
7.0

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

The Pride of Pikeville

1927

Wandering Willies poster
9.0

Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.

Wandering Willies

1926

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9.0

Energetic college student Eddie navigates a series of comedic mishaps, both slapstick and romantic as he get use to life on campus.

The College Kiddo

1927

The Jolly Jilter poster
9.0

Ben Turpin, a self-proclaimed "lady killer" finds himself in a difficult romantic predicament. Currently engaged to a woman described as a "gold-digger" (played by Madeleine Hurlock), Ben decides he must first end his relationship with his former lover, a showgirl and theater dancer named Alma Bennett.

The Jolly Jilter

1927

Butter Fingers poster
6.6

The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.

Butter Fingers

1925

Cured in the Excitement poster
7.0

Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!

Cured in the Excitement

1927

Lucky Stars poster
7.0

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

Lucky Stars

1925

Wild Honey poster
10.0

Actress Letty Noon and Rev. David Warwick seek advice from a parson who tells the tale of a minister who falls for a dance hall girl named Wild Honey. After a jealous suitor frames the minister for murder, Wild Honey clears his name, and he realizes her love. When another suitor tries to shoot the minister, Wild Honey is wounded protecting him. The minister takes her to another town, and they live happily together.

Wild Honey

1918

Flirty Four-Flushers poster
6.5

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

Flirty Four-Flushers

1926

A Rainy Knight poster
7.5

Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.

A Rainy Knight

1925

The Iron Nag poster
8.0

A jail break turns into a race.

The Iron Nag

1925

No artwork available
8.0

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short

For Sale, a Bungalow

1927

Headin' Home poster
5.8

The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.

Headin' Home

1920

This Thing Called Love poster
9.0

A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.

This Thing Called Love

1929