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Portrait of Ruth Roman

Modern Screen Magazine · Public domain

Ruth Roman

American actress

1922 – 1999aged 76

A contract actress at Warner Bros. in the early 1950s who held her own opposite Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), one of the director's tautest thrillers. She survived the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria as a passenger, and in 1959 won the Sarah Siddons Award for her stage work in Two for the Seesaw, later earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her television career.

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