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Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on ''All My Children'', which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. At the time of her death she was twenty-second on the all-time list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States. She made her film debut in ''Citizen Kane'', and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film to a packed, standing-room-only audience. Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and ''Citizen Kane'', in which she wrote "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". ==Early life== She was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1916 (as per her (son ) and the 1930 U.S. census, dated April 3, 1930, which gives her age as 13 as of that date). Her parents were Fred R. & Annie L. Warrick. By writing an essay in high school called "Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis", Warrick won a contest to be Miss Jubilesta, Missouri's paid ambassador to New York City. She began her career in the 1940s as a radio singer where she met her first husband Eric Rolf, but her first big break was being hired by a young Orson Welles for ''Citizen Kane'', where she played Emily Monroe Norton. Welles hired her again for ''Journey into Fear''. She appeared in ''The Corsican Brothers'', ''The Iron Major'', ''Mr. Winkle Goes to War'', and ''Guest in the House''. Following World War II, she had a role in the Academy Award winning Disney film ''Song of the South''; she also appeared in ''Daisy Kenyon'', which starred Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda, but by the late 1940s her film roles were becoming infrequent and less notable. After playing Betty Hutton's sister-in-law in ''Let's Dance'', she starred as a troubled wife looking back at her life in the religious drama ''Second Chance'' and an alcoholic wife and mother in ''One Too Many''. In the 1950s, she befriended soap opera executives Irna Phillips and Agnes Nixon. Warrick became a cast member on the soap opera ''The Guiding Light'', playing Janet Johnson, R.N. from 1953–54. Phillips was impressed by Warrick's performance and hired her for her new soap opera, ''As the World Turns'' when the show debuted in 1956. Her character, Edith Hughes, was madly in love with a married man, Jim Lowell. Phillips wanted the characters to live happily ever after, but Procter & Gamble, which owned the show, demanded that the characters not endorse adultery, so Jim "died". She stayed on the show until 1960. From 1959-60, she understudied for Una Merkel and (future ''All My Children'' co-star) Eileen Herlie in the Broadway musical, ''Take Me Along''. During the 1961-62 television season, she starred in ''Father of the Bride'' television series. Then, in 1965, she joined the cast of the primetime serial, ''Peyton Place'', playing Hannah Cord. While there had been previous primetime serials (such as ''One Man's Family''), none had enjoyed the phenomenal success of ''Peyton Place''. Warrick received an Emmy Award nomination for her work on this show in 1967, the same year she left the show. In 1969, she made her last major film, Disney's ''The Great Bank Robbery''. During this time, Nixon had been moving up the daytime television ranks. She had created her own show, ''One Life to Live'', in 1968. ABC approved her new show, ''All My Children'', in 1969. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Warrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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