Ruth Clifford

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916). By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck. Clifford's obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she "became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era".

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1998
Mickey's Family Album
Movie Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1993
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Movie Herself
1968
Funny Girl
Movie Maid (uncredited)
1961
Two Rode Together
Movie Woman (uncredited)
1960
Sergeant Rutledge
Movie Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1958
The Last Hurrah
Movie Nurse (uncredited)
1957
Designing Woman
Movie Vanessa Cole
1957
The Wings of Eagles
Movie Tourist (uncredited)
1956
The Searchers
Movie Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
1956
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Movie Florence (uncredited)
1955
The Cobweb
Movie Mrs. Jenkins
1952
Pluto's Christmas Tree
Movie Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1952
The Quiet Man
Movie Mother (uncredited)
1950
Sunset Boulevard
Movie Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
1950
Wagon Master
Movie Fleuretty Phyffe
1950
Pluto and the Gopher
Movie Minnie Mouse (voice)