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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.114 |
Birthday | 1936-05-30 |
Place of Birth | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
Also Known As | Rita Kilmonis, Ruta Kilmonis, Ruta Mary Kilmonis, |
2004
Quiet Kill
3.4/4
An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen)...
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Quiet Kill
2006
Christmas Do-Over
5.9/41
A ne'er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it...
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Christmas Do-Over
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
8.2/1381
A famous, ailing barrister agrees to defend Leonard Vole in a sensational murder trial and his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony makes the...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7.2/521
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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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
2007
A Christmas Too Many
1.5/2
Disaster strikes when an aging actress invites her eccentric family to Hollywood for the holidays.
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A Christmas Too Many
1974
Indict and Convict
0/0
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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Indict and Convict
1955
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.1/26
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but u...
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1963
The Gun Hawk
4/7
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 gun...
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The Gun Hawk
1964
Bullet for a Badman
6.1/18
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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Bullet for a Badman
1972
Doomsday Machine
3.1/27
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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Doomsday Machine
1955
The Twinkle In God's Eye
7/1
A new parson arrives in the mining town of Lodestone and attempts to build a church. Western.
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
1988
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
7.4/292
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, how...
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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
1971
A Howling in the Woods
5.2/14
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 mys...
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A Howling in the Woods
1963
Hootenanny Hoot
5/1
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 ta...
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Hootenanny Hoot
1961
Operation Eichmann
6/2
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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Operation Eichmann
1957
Funny Face
6.965/667
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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Funny Face
1997
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
3.7/3
Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, frie...
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Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
2009
Kay Thompson: Think Pink!
0/0
A documentary about Kay Thompson.
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Kay Thompson: Think Pink!
1958
Marjorie Morningstar
6.2/19
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...
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Marjorie Morningstar
1962
Sergeants 3
5.4/9
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
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Sergeants 3
1974
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
6/2
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 reco...
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Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1990
Rapunzel
6/7
A Hallmark adaptation of Rapunzel.
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Rapunzel
1980
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
6.3/10
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
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The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
1995
Funny Bones
6.5/48
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—start...
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Funny Bones
2007
Christmas at Cadillac Jack's
10/1
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...
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Christmas at Cadillac Jack's
1980
Lucy Moves to NBC
1/2
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 ass...
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Lucy Moves to NBC
1977
Rooster: Spurs of Death!
1.5/2
70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry.
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Rooster: Spurs of Death!
1956
Gaby
7/1
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
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Gaby
1981
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
2.2/4
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 beau...
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1997
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
7.5/2
This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven Broth...
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Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
2021
Senior Moment
5.8/19
After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he m...
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Senior Moment
1990
People Like Us
6/2
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 enab...
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