Editing Ruth Chatterton (section)

==Career==
[[File:Madame-X-Chatterton.jpg|thumb|left|[[Ullrich Haupt (actor, born 1887)|Ullrich Haupt]] and Chatterton in ''[[Madame X (1929 film)|Madame X]]'' (1929)]]
In 1911, Chatterton made her Broadway stage debut in ''The Great Name''. Her greatest success onstage came in 1914, when she starred in the play ''[[Daddy-Long-Legs (play)|Daddy Long Legs]]'', adapted from the novel by [[Jean Webster]].<ref name="deseret">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19611125&id=RmQvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g0gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4955,5339004&hl=en|title=Ruth Chatterton Dies; Was Actress 4 Decades|date=November 25, 1961|work=The Deseret News|page=A7|access-date=March 22, 2015|location=Salt Lake City, Utah}}</ref>

Chatterton married her first husband, actor [[Ralph Forbes]], on December 19, 1924, in Manhattan.<ref>New York City, Marriage Indexes,
1907-1995</ref> They moved to Los Angeles. With the help of [[Emil Jannings]], she was cast in her first film role in ''[[Sins of the Fathers (1928 film)|Sins of the Fathers]]'' in 1928. That same year, she was signed to a contract by [[Paramount Pictures]]. Chatterton's first film for Paramount was also her first sound film, ''[[The Doctor's Secret (1929 film)|The Doctor's Secret]]'', released in 1929. Chatterton was able to make the transition from silents to sound because of her stage experience.<ref name="mclean">{{harvnb|McLean|2011|p=23}}</ref>

Later in 1929, Chatterton was loaned to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], where she starred in ''[[Madame X (1929 film)|Madame X]]''. The film was a critical and box-office success, and effectively launched Chatterton's career. For her work in the film, Chatterton received her first nomination for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{harvnb|Turner Classic Movies, Inc.|Corliss|2014|p=70}}</ref> The following year, she starred in ''[[Sarah and Son]]'', portraying an impoverished housewife who rises to fame and fortune as an opera singer. The film was another critical and financial success, and Chatterton received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Later that year, Chatterton was voted the second female star of the year, behind only [[Norma Shearer]], in a poll conducted by the West Coast film exhibitors.<ref name="mclean"/>

[[File:Ruth Chatterton in Female trailer.jpg|thumb|Chatterton in the trailer for ''[[Female (1933 film)|Female]]'' (1933)]]
In 1933, Chatterton starred in the successful [[Pre-Code]] comedy-drama ''[[Female (1933 film)|Female]]'', in which she plays the head of an automobile factory who uses handsome men in her employ for sex and then drops them. When she left [[Paramount Pictures]], her initial home studio, for [[Warner Bros.]], along with [[Kay Francis]] and [[William Powell]], the brothers Warner were said to then need an infusion of "class". Chatterton's last picture for Warner Brothers was the 1934 drama ''[[Journal of a Crime]]'', co-starring [[Adolphe Menjou]] and [[Claire Dodd]]. In this late pre-Coder, Chatterton plays a jealous wife who murders her husband's mistress. Chatterton is well-remembered for the types of roles that came to an end with implementation of the Production Code in July 1934, but she went on to co-star in the film ''[[Dodsworth (film)|Dodsworth]]'' (1936), for [[Samuel Goldwyn]]. This is widely regarded as her finest film, with what many considered an Oscar-worthy performance, although she was not nominated. Due to her age and the studios' focus on younger, more bankable stars, she moved to England and made only two more pictures, ending with ''[[A Royal Divorce (1938 film)|A Royal Divorce]]'' (1938). She came back in 1948 to do television until 1953.