Ruth Roman

 Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman; December 22, 1922 (died September 9th, 1999)was an American actress of film, stage, and television.After performing in stage roles on the east coast, Roman relocated to Hollywood to make a name for herself in film. She was in a variety of uncredited bit parts before she was chosen as the leading lady in the western Harmony Trail (1944) and as the title character in the film serial Jungle Queen (1945), her first film credit performances.Roman initially starred in the role of Belle Starr's Daughter as the title character in Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She had her first major success in the role of The Window (1949) and the following year was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress for her performance on Champion (1949). The actress was contracted to Warner Bros. in the 1950s. She starred in a number of films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). Roman also started appearing as a guest on TV series around the middle of the 1950s. Roman also produced films in Spain, Italy, and England. In 1956, she was a passenger on the SS Andrea Doria that collided with another vessel and was sunk. In 1959, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the play Two for the Seesaw. She was a TV celebrity who was awarded a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood for her numerous TV appearances.Norma Roman was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents Mary Pauline (nee Gold), and Abraham "Anthony” Roman in Lynn, Massachusetts. When a fortune teller advised her mother that "Norma was not lucky," she was given the name Ruth. Her mother was a dancer , and her father worked as a barker for a carnival sideshow they owned in Revere Beach. She had two older sisters: Ann and Eve.