Ruth Warrick
Ruth Warrick, Charles Foster Kane’s wife in Orson Welles‘ 1941 classic Citizen Kane, died today of complications from pneumonia. She was 89.
Also in 1941, Warrick was Douglas Fairbanks, Jr’s leading lady in the period adventure The Corsican Brothers, but despite an auspicious beginning her film career didn’t go very far.
In the following years, Warrick (born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on June 29, 1915) was cast in supporting roles in major productions or in leads in B fare, usually playing the hero’s or the second male lead’s wife. Among the most important of those were Norman Foster and (an uncredited) Orson Welles’ Journey into Fear (1942), in which she plays hero Joseph Cotten’s wife — though the chief female role [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2005
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Tags: All My Children, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Journey into Fear, Mr. Winkle Goes to War, Orson Welles, Peyton Place, Ruth Warrick, Song of the South, The Corsican Brothers
