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Dec 5, 2013 · Ruby Dee, 1972. Public Domain Image. Broadway performer and film actress, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1924 to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Wallace. Her mother was a domestic and her father worked as a cook, waiter, and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee’s father married Emma Amelia ...
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Apr 1, 2018 · Gladys Hightower, a Tower of Song in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I never knew her history or how she came to be the only black person at the First United Methodist Church in Las Vegas, New Mexico. But she was there, and had been a part of the church for many years before I discovered it. She always sat at the end of the second row pew on the west side.
Early life and education. Dee was born on October 27, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, [3] the daughter of Gladys ( née Hightower) and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook, waiter and porter. [4] After her mother left the family, Dee's father remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher.
Jun 11, 2014 · Born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1922, she was the third child born to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace. Her parents were two teenagers who married when Gladys became pregnant with the first child. In three years Gladys left Ruby's father with three children.
Jun 11, 2014 · Ruby Wallace, daughter of Edward Wallace and Gladys Hightower, was born in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] . The family moved to Harlem, New York City by 1930 where she grew up. Ruby married blues singer Frankie Dee Brown in 1941 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, [1] and began using his middle name as her stage name.
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- October 27, 1922
- Frank Dee Brown, Raiford Chatman Davis
- June 11, 2014
Apr 29, 2022 · Ruby Dee (née Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Early years.
Aug 20, 2020 · Broadway performer and film actress, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1922, to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Wallace. Her mother was a domestic and her father worked as a cook, waiter, and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee’s father married Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher.
