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Ruta Lee

Ruta Lee

Ruta Lee (born Ruta Mary Kilmonis, May 30, 1935) is a Canadian-American actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. She had roles in films including Billy Wilder's crime drama Witness for the Prosecution and Stanley Donen's musical comedy Funny Face and also is remembered for her guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Rod Serling's sci-fi series The Twilight Zone called "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain".

Lee guest-starred on many television series, and was also featured on a number of game shows, including Hollywood Squares, What's My Line?, and as Alex Trebek's co-host on High Rollers. She is of Lithuanian descent.

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Senior Moment (2021)

After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he meets Caroline and learns to navigate love and life again. ...

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Kay Thompson: Think Pink! (2009)

A documentary about Kay Thompson. ...

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Christmas at Cadillac Jack's (2007)

While stranded at a diner on Christmas Eve, Rose finds personal redemption in protecting a young baby from an abusive father on her way to reconciling with the child she had to give up for adoption in her youth. ...

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A Christmas Too Many (2007)

Disaster strikes when an aging actress invites her eccentric family to Hollywood for the holidays. ...

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Christmas Do-Over (2006)

Kevin tries to be involved with his son and ex-wife's family for Christmas. During dinner, he thought his Christmas *day* couldn't be more screwed; his son suddenly wishes it was Christmas every day. After that, it was a regular Groundhog's Day. Kevin lear ...

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Quiet Kill (2004)

An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger man, Steve Sterns (N ...

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Pretty When You Cry (2001)

A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence. ...

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Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1997)

Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, friends, and neighbours must come to terms with Pixie's new "look". Her only chance to return to her normal st ...

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Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (1997)

This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. ...

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Funny Bones (1995)

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood. ...

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Timeless Tales: Rapunzel (1990)

A Hallmark adaptation of Rapunzel. ...

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People Like Us (1990)

When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice. ...

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Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

Tennessee William's masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo. ...

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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they've been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that not only is it actually an all-girl school of famous monsters' daughters but there's ...

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Smorgasbord (1983)

Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end h ...

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Elvis and the Beauty Queen (1981)

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of hi ...

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The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)

Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed. ...

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Lucy Moves to NBC (1980)

Contacted by Fred Silverman, the President of NBC, Lucille Ball accepts to go back to work as a producer. With the help of her faithful production assistant, Gale Gordon, she starts working on a new series titled "The Music Mart". ...

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Rooster: Spurs of Death! (1977)

70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry. ...

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Roll, Freddy, Roll! (1974)

A man determined to impress his son--and show up his son's stepfather--decides to try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a record for staying the longest time on roller skates. ...

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Indict and Convict (1974)

A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover. ...

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Doomsday Machine (1972)

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military. ...

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A Howling in the Woods (1971)

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night. ...

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Bullet for a Badman (1964)

Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife. ...

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The Gun Hawk (1963)

When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him. ...

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Hootenanny Hoot! (1963)

The marriage of television director Ted Glover and television producer A.G. Bannister has gone on the rocks because she has permitted her career to take precedence over romance. ...

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Sergeants 3 (1962)

Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870. ...

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Operation Eichmann (1961)

Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II. ...

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Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away fro ...

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite. ...

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Funny Face (1957)

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model. ...

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Gaby (1956)

A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II. ...

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The Twinkle In God's Eye (1955)

A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but the local townsfolk are keener about cash than religion. ...

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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White and the wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw. Nesbit marries Thaw, but White's continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw's volatile temper. A fictionali ...

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. ...

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