Writer
Ruth Rose
130 years · Somerville, Massachusetts, USA · 9 films
Ruth Rose (January 16, 1896 – June 8, 1978) was an American screenwriter known for various adventure films produced by RKO Radio Pictures, including King Kong (1933), Son of Kong (1933), She (1935) and Mighty Joe Young (1949). An academic writer and explorer before her career shift into film, she met her future husband, director Ernest B. Schoedsack, while on expedition through the Galapagos Islands in 1925; the couple would later marry in 1926 and collaborate on five films together during their time in Hollywood, remaining a couple until Rose's death at the age of 82 in 1978.
Best known for
Filmography 9
King Kong: Monster and Myth
2024 · Self - Writer (archive footage)
The Lost Spider Pit Sequence
2005 · Screenplay
King Kong
1976 · Screenplay
On Philo
Mighty Joe Young
1949 · Screenplay
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · Screenplay
On TCM
The Son of Kong
1933 · Writer
Blind Adventure
1933 · Writer
King Kong
1933 · Screenplay
Diplomacy
1916 · Mion