Rose, Ruth, 1896-1978
Dates
- Existence: 1896 - 1978
Biography
Ruth Rose (1896-1978) was an American screenwriter.
Ruth Rose was a writer who worked on several films in the 1930s and the 1940s, most famously the original 1933 classic King Kong. She was born to a playwright and acted onstage from a young age. In 1926, she met her husband, Ernest B. Schoedsack, on an expedition in which she worked as historian and he was cinematographer. They were married and she proceeded to join Schoedsack and his partner, Merian C. Cooper, working on Chang, King Kong, Son of Kong, and other films.
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Ruth Rose. Wikipedia. Accessed 14 April 2017. (b. January 16, 1896, d. June 8, 1978, screenwriter, stage actress, married Ernest B. Schoedsack, partnered with Merian C. Cooper on various films.)Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Jamboree (Son of Kong)
Collection consists of one 113-page script in plastic wrappers with a budget sheet associated with the film, housed together in a single volume. Date of printing was 7 April 1933.
Stephan Pickering papers
2 boxes of scripts, photographs, and correspondence.
Ernest B. Schoedsack sound recordings
Collection includes two compact discs with sound recordings made by Ernest B. Schoedsack during the 1960s. Includes a narration of the wreck of the schooner Wisdom II by Schoedsack, and a recorded letter to a Mr. Turner in Texas. The letter has several narrative voices in addition to Schoedsack, including Ruth Rose and Robert Armstrong. Dated approximately 1960s.
She / by H. Rider Haggard ; screen play by Ruth Rose ; additional dialogue by Dudley Nichols
Contains a bound script of the 1935 motion picture SHE, interleaved with storyboard sketches and inscribed by Merian C. Cooper, the film's producer, to Max Steiner, who composed the music for the film.
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- Performing Arts 2
- Son of Kong (Motion picture) 2
- Compact discs 1
- Creation (Motion picture) 1
- Immortalism -- Drama 1
- King Kong (Motion picture : 1933) 1
- Letters 1
- Media and Communication 1
- Mighty Joe Young (Motion picture : 1949) 1
- Motion pictures 1
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- History 1
- Photographs 1
- Reincarnation -- Drama 1
- She (Motion picture : 1935) 1
- Shipwrecks -- History 1
- War eagles (Motion picture) 1
- Women -- Drama 1 + ∧ less