Editing Ruth Chatterton (section)

==Later years==
By 1938, Chatterton had tired of motion picture acting and retired from films. She moved back to the Eastern United States, where she lived with her third husband, Barry Thomson. In 1940 she returned to the Broadway stage to star in [[John Van Druten]]'s ''[[Leave Her to Heaven (play)|Leave Her to Heaven]]''. She continued acting in Broadway productions and appeared in the London production of ''[[The Constant Wife]]'', for which she received good reviews. Chatterton also raised French poodles and began a successful writing career.<ref name="lowry">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19580826&id=ktNNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a4oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7048,3812019&hl=en|title=Ruth Chatterton, Once a Star, In Second Career As Writer|last=Lowry|first=Cynthia|date=August 26, 1958|work=The Free Lance-Star|page=5|access-date=March 22, 2015|location=Fredericksburg, Virginia}}</ref> Her first novel, ''Homeward Borne'', was published in 1950 and became a best seller. She went on to write three more novels: ''The Betrayers'' (1953), ''The Pride of the Peacock'' (1954), and ''The Southern Wild'' (1958).
[[File:Ruth Chatterton ad - The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1932 (page 397 crop).jpg|left|thumb|Ruth Chatterton ad from ''[[The Film Daily]]'', 1932]]
In 1947 she narrated a four-sided 78 rpm disc set, ''The Revolt of the Alphabet'', written by John Byrne, with music by Vladimir Selinsky.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/78_the-revolt-of-the-alphabet_ruth-chatterson-john-bryne-vladimir-selinsky_gbia0000929b ''The Revolt of the Alphabet'' at Archive.org]</ref>

Chatterton came out of retirement in the 1950s, and appeared on U.S. television in several plays, including a TV adaptation of ''Dodsworth'' on ''Prudential Playhouse'', alongside [[Mary Astor]] and [[Walter Huston]].<ref>{{harvnb|Roberts|2003|p=260}}</ref> Her last television appearance was as [[Gertrude (Hamlet)|Gertrude]] in a 1953 adaptation of ''[[Hamlet]]'', with [[Maurice Evans (actor)|Maurice Evans]] in the title role, on the anthology series ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]''.