During this era, Cukor forged an alliance with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who had met in Cukor's home in 1939 and married three years later.

Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother ( Vivian Pickles ) prescribes for him, and develops a relationship with a 79-year-old woman named Maude ( played by Ruth Gordon ).

Cover of the Harold and Maude video, with lead actors Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort

At a funeral service for a total stranger, Harold meets Maude ( Ruth Gordon ), a 79-year-old woman who shares Harold's hobby of attending funerals.

* Ruth Gordon as Dame Marjorie “ Maude ” Chardin, a 79-year-old free spirit who wears her hair in braids across her head like laurels.

At the 29th Golden Globe Awards, Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon received a nomination for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy film, respectively.

* 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress ( d. 1985 )

Ruth Gordon began her career early, posing as a picture baby for Mellin's food.

Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-pro baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game.

" In 1978 Eastwood starred in Every Which Way but Loose alongside Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Ruth Gordon and John Quade.

Tracy and Hepburn's friends, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, wrote the parts specifically for the duo.

This time the play enjoyed a healthy Broadway run of 486 performances with Ruth Gordon in the title role, winning a Tony Award for Guthrie, its director.

Through Wilder, Findley became a close friend of actress Ruth Gordon, whose work as a screenwriter and playwright inspired Findley to consider writing as well.

The film is a remake of the 1977 TV movie The Prince of Central Park starring Ruth Gordon and T. J. Hargrave ; both films were based on the novel The Prince of Central Park by Evan Rhodes.

Adam's Rib is a 1949 American film written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor.

The film was written specifically as a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle ( their 9th film together ) by friends of the couple, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon.

Ruth Gordon ( later of Rosemary's Baby and Harold and Maude fame ) and Garson Kanin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1950.

* Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, a Friend of Vandergelder's Late Wife – Ruth Gordon

The cast includes their terrier Asta, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Patric Knowles, Sheldon Leonard, Tom Neal, Phyllis Gordon and Marjorie Main.

Two more first season guests stars were Ruth Gordon, as Kirk's ex-con grandmother, and Jerry Van Dyke, as the owner of a travel agency who, against his better judgement, hires Joanna only to have her quit on her first day.

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

* Ruth Gavison, " Privacy and the Limits of the Law ," in Michael J. Gorr and Sterling Harwood, eds., Crime and Punishment: Philosophic Explorations ( Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2000, formerly Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996 ), paperback, 552 pages, pp. 46 – 68.

At the wedding of Patton's daughter Ruth Ellen ( 1940 ), a couple who knew Patton from Hawaii ( Restarick and Eleanor Jones Withington ) crashed the wedding, and explained they were in the area when they saw the wedding announcement and hoped Patton didn't mind them showing up uninvited.

In March 2009 Jones went to the top of the UK Music Charts for the third time in his career thanks to a cover of " Islands in the Stream ", sung with Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon and Robin Gibb, who co-wrote the original with his brothers Barry and Maurice.

The cast included Gemma Arterton ( Tess ), Hans Matheson ( Alec ), Eddie Redmayne ( Angel ), Ruth Jones ( Joan ), Anna Massey ( Mrs. d ' Urberville ), and Kenneth Cranham ( Reverend James Clare ).

This lodge was well known and many celebrities stayed there including Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth and William Jennings Bryan.

* 1968: The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Featuring Miss Ruth Brown ( Solid State )

The fifth adaptation is a TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by Andrew Davies, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser, Alun Armstrong, Sue Johnston, Emma Pierson and Amanda Redman.

Gibb went back to the top of the UK charts in 2009 when he collaborated with singers Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon and Tom Jones on a new version of " Islands in the Stream ", written by Gibb, Barry and Maurice.

Notable Beat Generation women who have been published include Joyce Johnson ; Carolyn Cassady ; Hettie Jones ; Joanne Kyger ; Harriet Sohmers Zwerling ; Diane DiPrima ; and Ruth Weiss, who also made films.

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones ( August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963 ), was an American Pianist, Blues, R & B, Gospel, Pop and Jazz singer.

Ruth Jones was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and moved to Chicago as a child.

She credited Joe Sherman with suggesting the change from Ruth Jones, made before Lionel Hampton came to hear Dinah at the Garrick.

Davison played John Ingrams, a lawyer who helps Jones ' character, Ruth Slater, find her sister after her release from prison.

Also appearing in the film's vintage footage are Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Clara Bow, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Carole Lombard, Dolores del Río, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, James Cagney, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Windsor, Tom Mix, Marie Dressler, Bobby Jones, and Pope Pius XI.

Kicking off the show was a performance from Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones in their Gavin & Stacey guises, feat.

Together they are the executive producers for such shows as The Mighty Boosh, starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, Nighty Night, starring Julia Davis, Marion and Geoff, starring Rob Brydon, " Gavin and Stacey " starring Ruth Jones, James Corden, Joanna Page, Mathew Horne and Rob Brydon, and Human Remains, starring Davis and Brydon.

* 1920s: The Big Five of sports, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth emerge.

Baseball legend, Ed Barrow, who managed Crawford in his first two years with Detroit, and went on to convert Babe Ruth to an outfielder as general manager of the Yankees, once said that “ there never was a better hitter ” than Crawford .” One of his contemporaries, Fielder Jones, said of Crawford: “ None of them can hit quite as hard as Crawford.

* Ruth Jones ( Actress )