Editing Ruth Gordon (section)

=== 1950s ===
''[[The Actress]]'' (1953) was Gordon's film adaptation of her autobiographical play ''Years Ago'', filmed by MGM with [[Jean Simmons]] portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress. Gordon wrote three volumes of memoirs in the 1970s: ''My Side'', ''Myself Among Others'', and ''An Open Book''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=Ruth|title=My side: the autobiography of Ruth Gordon.|publisher=Harper & Row|language=en|date=1976|oclc=2437769}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=Ruth|title=Ruth Gordon, an open book|publisher=Doubleday|language=en|date=1980|oclc=6014288}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=Ruth|title=Myself among others.|publisher=Atheneum|language=en|date=1971|oclc=138331}}</ref>

Gordon continued her stage-acting career in the 1950s, and she was nominated for a 1956 [[Tony Award|Tony]] for [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play|Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play]] for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in [[Thornton Wilder]]'s ''[[The Matchmaker]]'', a role she played in London, Edinburgh, and Berlin.

[[File:Natalie_Wood_Ruth_Gordon_23rd_Golden_Globes.jpg|thumb|right|Gordon and Natalie Wood at the Golden Globes, 1966]]