Ruth Gillmore

Ruth Gillmore
Ruth Gillmore
Born	Ruth Emily Gillmore (1899-10-26)26 October 1899 London, England, U.K.
Died	12 February 1976(1976-02-12) (aged 76) Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other names	Ruth Gillmore Sonino
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1918–1935
Spouse	Max 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),^[citation needed] 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. "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