Actress. She made her Broadway debut in the musicial "You Can't Take It With You"(1936). Some of her most memorable roles included "President's Lady"(1953), "Raintree County" (1957), "Porgy and Bess"(1959), the Mayor's nurse in "The Takings of Pelham, One Two Three" (1974), the role of Edna in "Conrack"(1974) and Louise, the cook in"Being There"(1979) with Peter Sellers. Attaway succumbed to injuries resulting from an apartment fire at age of 77.
In addition to her brother, the writer Bill Attaway, she had a sister who survived both of them, Florence Miller of Chicago.
Ruth Attaway's obituary appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/obituaries/ruth-attaway-actress-dies-of-injuries-in-apartment-fire.html
In addition to her brother, the writer Bill Attaway, she had a sister who survived both of them, Florence Miller of Chicago.
Ruth Attaway's obituary appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/obituaries/ruth-attaway-actress-dies-of-injuries-in-apartment-fire.html
Actress. She made her Broadway debut in the musicial "You Can't Take It With You"(1936). Some of her most memorable roles included "President's Lady"(1953), "Raintree County" (1957), "Porgy and Bess"(1959), the Mayor's nurse in "The Takings of Pelham, One Two Three" (1974), the role of Edna in "Conrack"(1974) and Louise, the cook in"Being There"(1979) with Peter Sellers. Attaway succumbed to injuries resulting from an apartment fire at age of 77.
In addition to her brother, the writer Bill Attaway, she had a sister who survived both of them, Florence Miller of Chicago.
Ruth Attaway's obituary appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/obituaries/ruth-attaway-actress-dies-of-injuries-in-apartment-fire.html
In addition to her brother, the writer Bill Attaway, she had a sister who survived both of them, Florence Miller of Chicago.
Ruth Attaway's obituary appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/obituaries/ruth-attaway-actress-dies-of-injuries-in-apartment-fire.html
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