The Actress

Playing cards with her ex-sailor father (Spencer Tracy), aspiring actress Ruth (Jean Simmons) receives friends (Norma Jean Nilsson, Dawn Bender), in George Cukor's The Actress, 1953, from Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play.

At the Wollaston, ME train station, Ruth (Jean Simmons) with mother (Teresa Wright, 11 years Simmons' senior) and beau Fred (Anthony Perkins) gets an exciting telegram, in The Actress, 1953, from Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play and screenplay.

Opening scene from author and screenwriter Ruth Gordon (nee Jones, played by Jean Simmons) watching Hazel Dawn (Kay Williams) in The Pink Lady, then with parents (Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright) in George Cukor's The Actress, 1953.

Jean Simmons stars in The Actress (1953), the true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.