Connection
Ruby Gentry is a american film of genre Drama directed by King Vidor released in USA on 25 december 1952 with Jennifer Jones
Ruby Gentry (1952)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listRuby Gentry is a 1952 film, directed by King Vidor and starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston and Karl Malden.
The movie and the title character were the inspiration for Roberta Lee Streeter to take the performing name Bobbie Gentry.
Synopsis
Ruby Corey (Jennifer Jones), a poor backwoods girl living in the small North Carolina town of Braddock, is still in love with Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston). During high school, Ruby had rebuffed his aggressive advances, and was taken in for a couple of years by a kind wealthy businessman and his wife, who protected her and taught her the skills a lady would need. She moved back home when her father needed her help. Boake's family used to be wealthy, but after generations of profligacy all he has left is the land he has had drained and farmed. He starts a relationship with her but plans to marry a local woman with a rich family. When she hears the news, Ruby marries her former benefactor, Mr. Jim Gentry (Karl Malden), whose invalid wife had recently died, despite not loving him.Actors
Jennifer Jones
(Ruby Gentry)
Charlton Heston
(Boake Tackman)
Karl Malden
(Jim Gentry)
Tom Tully
(Jud Corey)
James Anderson
(Lucien/Jewel Corey)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Ruby Gentry
There are 190 films with the same actors, 74 films with the same director, 66896 with the same cinematographic genres (including 124 with exactly the same 3 genres than Ruby Gentry), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Ruby Gentry, you will probably like those similar films :
Duel in the Sun (1946)
, 2h9Directed by William Dieterle, Otto Brower, David Selznick, Josef von Sternberg, King Vidor, William Cameron Menzies, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish
Rating66%
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) kills her mother (Tilly Losch), having caught his wife with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousin and old sweetheart, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish).
Cynara (1932)
, 1h20Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Henry Stephenson, Phyllis Barry, Paul Porcasi, Wilson Benge
Rating63%
In Naples, disgraced London barrister James "Jim" Warlock (Ronald Colman) prepares to part from his beloved wife Clemency (Kay Francis) and start anew in South Africa. When she asks him to explain the events leading to his downfall, a flashback ensues.
Stella Dallas (1937)
, 1h46Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale
Rating73%
Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck), the daughter of a mill worker in a post-World War I Massachusetts factory town, is determined to better herself. She sets her sights on mill executive Stephen Dallas (John Boles) and catches him at an emotionally vulnerable time. Stephen's father killed himself after losing his fortune. Penniless, Stephen disappeared from high society, intending to marry his fiancée Helen (Barbara O'Neil) once he was financially able to support her. However, just as he reaches his goal, he reads in the newspaper the announcement of her wedding. So he marries Stella.
Bird of Paradise (1932)
, 1h20Directed by King Vidor, H. Bruce Humberstone, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Volcanisme, Films based on plays
Actors Dolores del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Bert Roach, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Rating59%
As a yacht sails into an island chain in the South Pacific, a large number of natives in pontoon boats sail out to greet them. The natives dive for the trinkets the yacht's crew throws them. A shark arrives, scaring most of the natives away. In an attempt to catch a shark by throwing it bait that has been tied to a harpoon-sized hook, Johnny Baker (Joel McCrea) accidentally steps into a loop that tightens around his ankle. The shark takes the bait, and the rope grows tighter, causing the rope to yank the young man overboard. Luana (Dolores del Río), the daughter of the chief, saves his life by leaping into the water and cutting the rope.
The Stranger's Return (1933)
, 1h28Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Stuart Erwin, Irene Hervey, Beulah Bondi
Rating68%
Miriam Hopkins plays Louise Starr, who gets divorced from her husband and returns to the home she left on a farm where she reunites with her grandfather. He introduces her to Guy Crane with whom she falls in love; however, he is married.
An American Romance (1944)
, 2h30Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally, J. M. Kerrigan
Rating66%
European immigrant Stefan Dubechek (Brian Donlevy) arrives in America in the 1890s and becomes involved in the steel industry. He eventually becomes an automobile manufacturer. And then, in World War II, a plane manufacturer.
His Hour (1924)
, 1h10Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Aileen Pringle, John Gilbert, Emily Fitzroy, Lawrence Grant, Dale Fuller, George Waggner
Rating60%
Gritzko (John Gilbert) is a Russian nobleman and Tamara (Aileen Pringle), is the object of his desire.
Comrade X (1940)
, 1h31Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Spy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Alexander Asro, Oskar Homolka, Eve Arden, Felix Bressart
Rating64%
In the Soviet Union, American reporter McKinley "Mac" Thompson (Clark Gable) secretly writes unflattering stories, attributed to "Comrade X," for his newspaper. His identity is discovered by his valet, Vanya (Felix Bressart), who blackmails Mac into promising to get his daughter, a streetcar conductor named Theodore (Hedy Lamarr), out of the country. Theodore agrees to a sham marriage so she can spread the message of the benefits of Communism to the rest of the world. However, Commissar Vasiliev (Oscar Homolka) is determined to unmask and arrest Comrade X.
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
, 2h21Directed by King Vidor, Bernard Vorhaus, Noël Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, David Farrar, Marisa Pavan, Finlay Currie
Rating61%
The film's theme differs substantially from Biblical sources and is highly fictionalized, most notably in representing the Queen of Sheba as an ally of ancient Egypt in opposition to King Solomon of Israel, and in her having a love affair with Solomon.
The Citadel (1938)
, 1h50Directed by King Vidor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams, Penelope Dudley-Ward
Rating70%
Dr. Andrew Manson (Robert Donat) is an idealistic newly qualified Scottish doctor dedicated to treating Welsh miners suffering from tuberculosis in the Welsh mining village of Blaenely and apprentice to Dr. Page (Basil Gill). Initially, he is full of lofty scientific goals, though his purpose erodes when he later moves to London to treat rich hypochondriacs, where a chance encounter with a medical school chum Dr. Frederick Lawford (Rex Harrison) leads to his quiet seduction by an ethically challenged medical establishment. Christine (Rosalind Russell), his wife tries to set him back on the original path. Dr. Philip Denny (Ralph Richardson), Manson's best friend, dies at the hands of an incompetent, social-climbing surgeon.