- Ruth Chatterton, Dodsworth, 1935. Mrs Walter Huston was in the mix for his screen wife. They had played the Dodsworths in the LA stage production of the Broadway play just before shooting began. Co-star Mary Astor said the wife was “a woman trying to hang onto her youth – exactly what Ruth herself was doing. It touched a nerve.”
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