Ruth Woodman

Ruth Woodman was born on Nov 26, 1894 in USA. Ruth Woodman's big-screen debut came with Last of the Pony Riders directed by George Archainbaud in 1953.

Despite her eastern roots, Ruth Cornwall Woodman created one of the great anthologies about the American West. A descendant of Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop and a Vassar graduate, Woodman was a mother of two and wife to a New York investment banker when she was asked to create a radio show (she was working at the time as a copywriter in an advertising agency). Given the product ties of the sponsor (U.S. Borax) to the remote desert region of the United States, Woodman thought the program should be tied to that area. The sponsor agreed, on one condition--that she travel to the region (the sponsor didn't want stories coming out of the imagination of someone sitting back in New York). Woodman's creation, "Death Valley Days," with its devotion to realistic drama and western character studies, ran on American network radio from 1931 to 1951 and then on television for another two decades.