Full Name Ruth McMahon Role Singer Name Ruth Terry | Years active 1937-1964 Occupation Film actress, singer Spouse John Ledbetter (m. 1966) | |
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Movies The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, Call of the Canyon, Slightly Honorable, Heart of the Golden West, Wife - Husband and Friend Similar People Joseph Santley, Al Dexter, Frank McDonald, Tay Garnett, Gregory Ratoff | ||
Ruth terry with the girl with the high button shoes
Ruth Mae Terry (October 21, 1920 – March 11, 2016), was an American singer and actress in film and television from the 1930s to the 1960s. She claimed her stage name came from Walter Winchell, who combined the names of two then-famous baseball players, Babe Ruth and Bill Terry.
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- Early years
- Career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
hands across the border 1944 1 6 with roy rogers and ruth terry
Early years
Born Ruth Mae McMahon in Benton Harbor, Michigan, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.E. McMahon. Her parents were Irish. She attended St. John's Catholic School in Benton Harbor.
Terry won a number of prizes for singing before singing with the Paul Ash Theater Orchestra at the age of twelve. At that same age, she left her hometown to sing with Clyde McCoy's orchestra.
Career
Terry's first movie was Love and Hisses in 1937 with Walter Winchell, at which time she was earning $400 per week. Her first western was Call of the Canyon with Gene Autry. She appeared in several Roy Rogers movies. Her best-known movie was Pistol Packin' Mama, based on the song of the same name with Robert Livingston. She retired when she married her second husband in 1966.
While making films, Terry continued her singing career in a limited way. On August 15, 1943, she appeared as guest female singer on The Bob Crosby Show on NBC radio.
Personal life
On June 20, 1942, Terry and test pilot John Martin eloped and were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. On October 25, 1947, she married John P. Gilmour, a Canadian. A November, 8, 1947, article in her hometown newspaper, The News-Palladium, reported, "She has given up her career as an actress and she and her husband and her four-year-old son by a previous marriage will make their home at St. Genevieve de Pierre Fonds, Quebec."
Death
Terry died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 95.
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