Ruth Roman

 Ruth Roman, born Norma Roman, December 22, 1922 - September 9th 1999, was an American actress. She began her career on the east coast as a stage actor before moving to Hollywood to pursue a career with films. She was in a variety of part parts that were not acknowledged until she was chosen as the lead actress in the western Harmony Trail (1944) and in the title role in the serial film Jungle Queen (1945), her first credit-worthy film performances.Roman was first seen in the title role in Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She achieved her first notable success in the role of The Window (1949) and the following year was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress for her performance on Champion (1949). She was under contract to Warner Bros. in the 1950s. There she starred in several films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). Roman began appearing as a guest on TV series in the mid-1950s. Roman also traveled abroad and made films in England, Italy, and Spain. She was also a passenger on the SS Andrea Doria when it collided with another ship and sank in 1956. In 1959, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her role in the show Two for the Seesaw. Her many television appearances earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. FameNorma Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Mary Pauline (nee Gold) and Abraham "Anthony" Roman. She was renamed "Ruth" after the fortune-teller advised her mother that "Norma" was a bad name. Her mother was a dancer, and her father was a barker in a sideshow at a carnival which they ran in Revere Beach, Massachusetts. She had two older sisters, Ann and Eve.