Ruth Roman

 Ruth Roman, born Norma Roman, December 22, 1922 – September 9th, 1999, was an American actress. She began her career in the east coast of America as a stage actor and then moved to Hollywood to explore a film career. 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 in the title role in the serial film Jungle Queen (1945), her first film credits performances.Roman initially starred in the role of Belle Starr's Daughter as the title character in Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She made her debut success with a role in The Window (1949) and the following year was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year as an Actress for her performance in Champion (1949). In the early 1950s she was contracted to Warner Bros., where she starred in a variety of films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).In the late 1950s, after quitting Warner Bros., Roman continued to appear in films and also began playing the roles of guest stars in TV series. Roman also produced films in Spain, Italy, and England. Also, she was a passenger on the SS Andrea Doria when it struck another vessel and sank in 1956. In 1959, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in the play Two for the Seesaw. Her many television appearances have earned her a place 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 a fortune teller told her mother that "Norma" was an unlucky name. Her mother was a dancer and her father was a barker for an entertainment at the carnival in Revere Beach. She had two older sisters, Ann and Eve.