Ruth Gillmore
Ruth Gillmore
Born
Ruth Emily Gillmore

(1899-10-26)26 October 1899
London, England, U.K.
Died12 February 1976(1976-02-12) (aged 76)
Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other namesRuth Gillmore Sonino
OccupationActress
Years active1918–1935
SpouseMax Sonino

Ruth Emily Gillmore (26 October 1899 - 12 February 1976) was an English-born American stage actress.

Early years

Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors' Equity,[1] and actress Laura MacGillivray[2] and the sister of actress Margalo Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne. She was a fourth-generation actor on her father's side.

Career

Gillmore's first professional appearance was as an unborn child in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal in New York City in 1918.[1] Her later theatrical appearances included Edie Upton in The Robbery (1921), Jeanne in The Nest (1922), The '49ers (1922),[3] No Sirree! (1922),[4] Gail Carlton in No More Frontiers (1931), and Mrs Howard in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934-5).[5]

She married theatrical producer Max Sonino in Florence, Italy, in 1926.[6] He produced the play No More Frontiers (1931), in which she appeared.[7] Together they translated the Italian plays Finding Oneself (1933) by Luigi Pirandello,[8] and Giovacchino Forzano's Gutlibi and The Bells of San Lucio. Their daughter was Mildred Sonino.

Gillmore taught speech and drama at the Buckley School.[1]

Personal life and death

With her sister Margalo Gillmore she was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Gillmore died in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on February 12, 1976,[1] aged 76.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ruth Gillmore, Ex-Actress And a Teacher at Buckley". The New York Times. February 14, 1976. p. 28. ProQuest 122690688. Retrieved January 11, 2021 – via ProQuest.
  2. ↑ "Mrs. Gillmore dies; a retired actress". The New York Times. October 22, 1959. p. 37. ProQuest 114873175. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  3. ↑ The '49ers (1922) on the Internet Broadway Database
  4. ↑ Critics Are Actors to Actor Audiences; Present Burlesques on Modern Works to Broadway Theatre Folk' The New York Times 1 May 1922
  5. ↑ Ruth Gillmore at the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ↑ "Ruth Gillmore". Equity. 11: 9. June 1926.
  7. ↑ No More Frontiers (1931) on broadwayworld.com
  8. ↑ Catalog of copyright entries, Part 1 By Library of Congress Copyright Office pg 104 Google Books


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