Ruth Roman

 Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman (born on December 22, 1922 - September 9, 1999)was an American actress of film, stage, and television.After performing in stage roles on the east coast, Roman relocated to Hollywood to make a name for herself in film. She was in a variety of small roles that were not credited, before she was cast as the leading lady in the western Harmony Trail (1944) and as the title character in the film serial Jungle Queen (1945), her first film credits performances.Roman was first seen in the role of Belle Starr's Daughter as the title character in Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She had her first major success in the role of The Window (1949) and one year later, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year and the category of actress for her role in Champion (1949). In the beginning of 1950 she was signed to Warner Bros., where she appeared in a range of films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).In the mid-1950s, after leaving Warner Bros., Roman continued to appear in films and also began playing guest roles for television series. She also worked abroad and made films in England, Italy, and Spain. Also, she was a passenger on the SS Andrea Doria when it was involved in a collision with another ship and was sunk in 1956. In 1959, she was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the play Two for the Seesaw. Her numerous television appearances earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameNorma Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Mary Pauline (nee Gold) and Abraham "Anthony" Roman. The fortune-teller who advised her mother that "Norma was lucky,"" she was given the name Ruth. Her mother was a dancer and her father a barker in a carnival sideshow which they ran at Revere Beach, Massachusetts. Ann and Eve were her two older sisters.