Movies by Ruth White
As part of the cast:
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Let Me Hear You Whisper (2003)
Cast: Ruth White, Bil Baird, Elizabeth Wilson …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
Ruth White shines in this filmed stage adaptation of Paul Zindel's play, staring as Helen, a modest cleaning woman who strikes up a unique and inspiring friendship with a dolphin housed…
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Lullaby (2002)
Cast: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ruth White …
Real-life husband and wife Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson portray truck driver Johnny Horton (Wallach) and cigarette girl Eadie (Jackson), who elope after a hasty romance. But after the…
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
William (Michael Sarrazin) is a young man frustrated by the suffocating normalcy of life. His patience with authority finally begins to disintegrate when he pleads guilty to manslaughter…
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
To earn cash as a freelance sex stud and work toward his dream of becoming a kept man, hayseed hustler Joe Buck heads to New York City, where an improbable friendship blossoms when he meets…
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The Reivers (1969)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White …
Directed by: Mark Rydell
In director Mark Rydell's comedic drama based on a William Faulkner novel, 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin (Mitch Vogel) finds an unlikely friend in Boon (Steve McQueen), a handyman and…
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Hang 'Em High (1968)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Ted Post
Jed survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with his…
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Charly (1968)
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala …
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Inspired by Daniel Keyes's short story "Flowers for Algernon," this poignant drama explores what happens when Charly Gordon (Oscar winner Cliff Robertson), a mentally challenged adult,…
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A Rage to Live (1965)
Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara …
Directed by: Walter Grauman
When the perfect suitor (Bradford Dillman) proposes marriage, a young heiress (Suzanne Pleshette) tries her best to keep her insatiable sexual compulsions at bay. But her will power is put to…
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Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Cast: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Faithful wife Georgette (Lee Remick) arrives in Texas to join her shiftless, no-good husband, Henry (Steve McQueen), who's just been paroled from the state penitentiary. Henry hopes for…
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Southern comforts abound in this big-screen adaptation of Harper Lee's novel as lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, in an Oscar-winning role) defends an innocent black man (Brock Peters)…
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Naked City: Portrait of a Painter (1961)
Cast: Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, Paul Burke …
Four episodes of the popular TV series "Naked City" are included on this disc. In the titular episode, William Shatner plays a struggling artist who awakens to find his wife murdered. But did…
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The Nun's Story (1959)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans …
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
This moving religious drama stars Audrey Hepburn (who won a BAFTA Award) in a range-stretching performance as the young postulant Sister Luke. Assigned to a hospital in the Belgian Congo, the…
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Edge of the City (1957)
Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
When Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes) deserts the Army and goes to work at the New York rail yards, he hits it off with freight car loader Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), but their interracial…