Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* 2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician ( b. 1921 )

As close friend Margaret Mead explained, " Anthropology made the first ‘ sense ’ that any ordered approach to life had ever made to Ruth Benedict " After working with Goldenweiser for a year, he sent her to work as a graduate student with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1921.

In 1921, Ruth Davis moved to New York City with her daughters, where she worked as a portrait photographer.

The family was considering returning to France, when Ruth was diagnosed with stomach cancer, from which she died on October 21, 1921, in Bellevue Hospital, New York.

In 1921, the Lucy Stone League was founded in New York City by Ruth Hale, described in 1924 by Time as the "' Lucy Stone '- spouse " of Heywood Broun.

* Camille ( 1921 film ), a 1921 American silent film starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller

He married Dr. Ruth Norton in 1921 and had four sons.

* Ruth Batson ( 1921 – 2003 ), civil rights and education activist

Arthur and Ruth Lee, by this time Lord and Lady Lee of Fareham, left Chequers on 8 January 1921 after a final dinner at the house.

The so-called modern-day record ( 1900 and after ) is 177, achieved by Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees in 1921.

Ruth led the league in home runs and RBIs in both 1921 and 1923 but was edged out in batting average both years by Cobb and / or Heilmann.

Ruth Barcan Marcus ( August 2, 1921 – February 19, 2012 ) was an American philosopher and logician who developed the Barcan formula.

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* 1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress

* 1914 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter ( d. 1981 )

* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano

* 1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player

* 1923 – Yankee Stadium, " The House that Ruth Built ", opens.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

* 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress ( b. 1908 )

* 1961 – Roy Del Ruth, American director ( b. 1893 )

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

* 1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer ( d. 2002 )

He married eight times: Ruth Boyd ( 1940 – 1947 ), dancer Marion Bell ( 1947 – 1949 ), Nancy Olson ( 1950 – 1957 ), lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo ( 1957 – 1965 ), editor Karen Gunderson ( 1966 – 1974 ), Sandra Payne ( 1974 – 1976 ), Nina Bushkin ( 1977 – 1981 ) and Liz Robertson ( 1981 – 1986 death ).

The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

* Ruth Bader Ginsburg – 1993

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon ( born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) and Sosie Ruth Bacon ( born March 15, 1992 ).

Ruth Elizabeth " Bette " Davis ( April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989 ) was an American actress of film, television and theater.

* Undermining the Central Line ( with Ruth Rendell ) ( 1989 )

Dana gave birth to four children ; daughters Grace ( 18 January 1981 ) and Susanna Ruth ( 18 August 1983 ) and sons John-James ( 5 November 1984 ) and Robert ( 25 August 1989 ).

* Middleton, Ruth ( 1989 ).

Combs and his wife Ruth ( 1902 – 1989 ) had three sons: Earle, Jr., Charles, and Donald.

Ruth followed her first degree with a second degree in physics in 1986 and a D. Phil in mathematics at Oxford in June 1989, at the age of 17.

Van Duyn won every major U. S. prize for poetry, including the National Book Award ( 1971 ) for To See, To Take, the Bollingen Prize ( 1971 ), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ( 1989 ), and the Pulitzer Prize ( 1991 ) for Near Changes.

The novel was filmed twice: in 1986 as an award-winning BBC television serial, starring Patricia Hodge as Mary Fisher, Dennis Waterman as Bobbo and Julie T. Wallace as Ruth, and, less faithfully, by Hollywood in 1989 as She-Devil, starring Roseanne Barr as the " she-devil " and Meryl Streep as her adversary, Mary Fisher.

Notable productions were Lulu ( 1962 ; conducted by Karl Böhm, staged by Otto Schenk, designed by Caspar Neher, starring Evelyn Lear ), Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice ( 1967 ; conducted by Richard Bonynge, staged by Rudolf Hartmann, with Nicolai Gedda, Joan Sutherland ), Fidelio ( 1970 ; conducted by Leonard Bernstein, staged by Schenk, with Gwyneth Jones, James King ), Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ( 1971 ; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, staged by Federik Mirdita ), L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1973 ; conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by Schenk, with Nicolai Gedda, Reri Grist, Eberhard Wächter ), Die Fledermaus ( 1975 ; conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, staged by Michael Kehlmann, with Wiesław Ochman, Reri Grist, Elizabeth Harwood, Waldemar Kmentt ), La clemenza di Tito ( 1976 ; conducted by Julius Rudel, staged by Mirdita, with Werner Hollweg, Teresa Berganza, Arleen Augér, Edda Moser ), Fierrabras ( 1988 ; conducted by Claudio Abbado, staged by Ruth Berghaus, with Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, László Polgár ), Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1989 ; conducted by Harnoncourt, staged by Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann ), Don Giovanni ( 1990 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi, Karita Mattila, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1991 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Jonathan Miller, with Ruggero Raimondi, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ) and the world premiere of Adriana Hölszky's Die Wände ( 1995 ; conducted by Ulf Schirmer, staged by Hans Neuenfels ).

Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz ( 1989 ).

Founded by the late jazz drummer Billy Higgins and poet / community arts activist Kamau Daáood in 1989, it hosts the world renowned Anansi Writers Workshop ( notable alumni include Michael Datcher ( Raising Fences ), Ruth Forman, Derrick I. M.

For the 1989 season, the Keys played at McCurdy Field, a Babe Ruth League stadium, while waiting for the construction of the new stadium to be completed.

* 1989 – Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth

He was married to Audrey Ruth Meyer ( b. May 25, 1910, in Chicago, d. June 15, 1989, in Washington, D. C .), and they had three children — Forrest Jr., John and Jacqueline.

The Gallery made headlines in 1989 with its controversial Selected Sin group exhibition featuring works by Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jan Saudek, Andres Serrano, and Edward Weston.

* Ruth Pearce Award for Human Rights by Human Rights NGOs, Geneva, 1989

William Nicholson's first nomination came in 1989 when BAFTA TV Awards included the 1987 teleplay Sweet as You Are, which he co-wrote with Ruth Caleb and Angela Pope, on its list of candidates for " Best Single Drama ".