Ruth Roman

 Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman born December 22nd, 1922 - September 9, 1999)was an American actress in stage, film, and television.After performing in stage roles on the east coast, Roman relocated to Hollywood to make a name for herself in film. She appeared in numerous uncredited bit parts before she was chosen as the leading lady in the western Harmony Trail (1944) and in the title role of the film serial Jungle Queen (1945), her first credited film performances.Roman first starred in the role of Belle Starr's Daughter as the title character of Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She had her first major success in the role of The Window (1949) and in the same year, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year as an Actress for her performance in Champion (1949). In the beginning of 1950 she was contracted to Warner Bros., where she was a star in a number of films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).In the late 1950s, following her departure from Warner Bros., Roman continued to star in films and also began playing guest roles for television series. She also worked abroad and produced films in England, Italy, and Spain. Also, she was a passenger on the SS Andrea Doria when it struck another vessel and was sunk in 1956. In 1959, she was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in the play Two for the Seesaw. She was a TV star who was awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of fame for her numerous TV appearances.Norma Roman was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents Mary Pauline (nee Gold), and Abraham "Anthony” Roman in Lynn, Massachusetts. When a fortune teller advised her mother that "Norma was unlucky," she was given the name Ruth. Her mother was a dancer and her father was a barker in a sideshow at a carnival that they operated at Revere Beach, Massachusetts. Ann and Eve were her sisters older than her.