Ruth Clifford — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

One would not likely look to New England for screen stars, but Ruth Clifford, now a recognized luminary on the silver screen, was born and raised in Rhode Island and educated in St. Mary’s Seminary at Bayview.

When the siren screen called Miss Clifford it was not a mere matter of walking into a studio and being starred. She started with the Edison Company as an extra girl, and later was chosen from many extras to play opposite one of Universal’s male stars.

Her first big picture was “The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin,” a Universal-Jewel production. Her work in this picture was so remarkable that soon Miss Clifford was made a star for Universal.

There she made “Fires of Youth,” “The Lure of Luxury,” “The Game Is Up” and many others.

At the end of her contract she removed to an independent company, where she was starred in “The Amazing Woman.”

At Vitagraph she played a lead opposite Earle Williams. Other pictures in which Miss Clifford starred were: “The Savages,” “The Cabaret Girl,” “Eternal Love,” “Home, James,” “The Red, Red Heart.” Her latest productions are “Tropical Love,” produced by Porto Rica Photoplays, and “The Dangerous Age,” a John M. Stahl production for Mayer.

Miss Clifford was born February 17, 1900, has blonde hair and blue eyes, is five feet two inches tall and weighs 110 pounds.

She lives in her Hollywood home with a brother and sister.

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Portrait by Alfred Cheney Johnston