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The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play Years Ago. Gordon also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, and Teresa Wright, and features Anthony Perkins in his film debut.
Dreaming of the glamour and magic of the theatre, small-town romantic Jean Simmons waltzes around the decidedly earthbound household of her Papa: grizzled, opinionated sea-captain Spencer Tracy, who spends his time resisting the coming of the telephone.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- George Cukor
- 1953-09-25
In 1913, seventeen-year-old Ruth Gordon Jones watches breathlessly from the balcony of a Boston theater as stage star Hazel Dawn performs in a lavish musical number. That night, at her family's modest apartment in Wollaston, Ruth listens as her gruff father Clinton, from whom she has kept her own theatrical aspirations a secret, complains to ...
- George Cukor, Jack Greenwood
- Spencer Tracy
In 1913 Boston, teenager Ruth Gordon Jones (Jean Simmons) wants nothing more than to be a famous actress. Her father, Clinton (Spencer Tracy), who recently lost his job as a sailor and became a...
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- Spencer Tracy
- George Cukor
- Drama
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. — Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>.
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The Actress (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
