Ruth Warrick (89) Died Last Weekend

[arwalden]

(Sorry if this is a dupe. I just learned of her death today.)

I always enjoyed her portrayal of the meddling Pheobe English-Tyler-Wallingford-Matthews-Wallingford on "All My Children". Just last year she was presented with an Emmy Award for lifetime achievement. She also appeared in Peyton Place, Guiding Light, As The World Turns, Loving... and in 1941 she was in Citizen Kane.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913095/




http://abc.go.com/daytime/allmychildren/bios/ruth_warrick.html

When movies are discussed — whether at film festivals or late at night in front of the television set — one film is consistently acclaimed as an important cinematic achievement. The movie is Citizen Kane. Ruth Warrick was the young, New York theater-trained actress who played Orson Welles' wife.

This landmark film had its 50th anniversary in 1991, and to celebrate it, Ms. Warrick was honored with a caricature on the wall of the famed New York restaurant, Sardi's. Citizen Kane was Ms. Warrick's entry into Hollywood. Some 20 other movies (including The Great Bank Robbery), a long run and an Emmy nomination as Hannah Cord in Peyton Place, five years on As the World Turns a starring role in the television series, Father of the Bride, and guest starring roles on television and a long list of plays have followed. Ruth Warrick is a lady who likes to stay busy.

Ms. Warrick is no stranger to Broadway. She appeared with Jackie Gleason in the musical Take Me Along, and in a featured role in Pal Joey. She also played on Broadway and on tour in the hit play Irene. In regional theater she starred in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and in Long Day's Journey Into Night. She also toured as Anna in The King and I.

Her popular and fascinating autobiography, The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler, discusses the character of Phoebe, whom she has portrayed since the show's inception in 1970, as well as Ms. Warrick's life as an actress in New York and Hollywood. The book, which she wrote with Don Preston, was published in 1980 by Prentice-Hall.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. I am sorry to hear that

I believe she was the last principlal member of the of the cast of Citizen Kane.




Phont from a German website.

[Demit]

2. She made Phoebe such a deliciously wicked character. RIP, Ruth!

[Left Is Write]

3. Oh, that's too bad.

She was perfect as Phoebe!

[madrchsod]

4. loved her character in

all my children. we all should live a long and productive life such as she has. i think somewhere phoebe is still meddling in someones business.

[jrthin]

5. I will miss her.

I loved her and her work. The dems have lost another angel (When Hillary first ran for Senator I went to one of the fundraisers and the lovely Ms. Warrick was there, gracious and beautiful in her wheelchair).