Category: Academy Awards History

Born October 30, 1896 to a New England sea captain and his wife, Ruth Gordon Jones was enrolled the American Academy of Dramatic Arts upon graduating high school. A fast study, by 1915 she made her Broadway debut as Nibs in a revival of Peter Pan starring Maude Adams. That same year she made three…

Born June 26, 1922 in Cedarville, Ohio, the youngest of three children to a mathematics teacher and his wife, Eleanor Jean Parker developed an early interest in acting. On stage from the age of 15, she twice turned down Hollywood offers for screen tests, wanting to finish high school and then college before starting a…