ROBERT YOUNG LEW AYRES RUTH HUSSEY-SIGNED 1937 Cast PHOTO

  

Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, and Lew Ayres. Are snapped in a scene for Metro Goldwyn Mayer's "Rich Man, Poor Girl".

Miss Hussey is the girl who stepped right out of the ranks of minor players to win the leafing feminine role opposite. The two male stars in this picture.

Reinhold Schunzel directs and Edward. Rich Man, Poor Girl is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Robert Young, Ruth Hussey and Lew Ayres. The film is a remake of the 1929 film The Idle Rich. This was Lana Turner's second appearance as an MGM star. In it, wealthy young businessman Bill Harrison moves in with secretary girlfriend Joan Thayer's eccentric family to convince her they can make their marriage work.

Robert Young as Bill Harrison. Lew Ayres as Henry Thayer. Ruth Hussey as Joan Thayer. Ruth Hussey (1911 - 2005) was an actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story. After working as an actress in summer stock, she served as a radio fashion commentator on a Providence local station.

She wrote the ad copy for a local clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon. She was encouraged by a friend to audition for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse, but the theater director rejected her, saying that the roles were cast only out of New York City. Later that week, she traveled to New York, and on her first day there, she signed with a talent agent who booked her for a role in a play starting the next day back at the Providence Playhouse. In New York, she also worked for a time as a model. She then landed a number of stage roles with touring companies. While touring the country in 1937 in Dead End, Hussey was spotted on opening night at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by MGM talent scout Billy Grady. MGM signed her to a contract and she made her film debut later that year. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles. Hussey's breakout role was as Elizabeth Imbrie, the cynical magazine photographer in The Philadelphia Story (1940), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1941, theater exhibitors voted her the third-most-popular new star in Hollywood. Hussey also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight Command (1940), Robert Young in Northwest Passage (1940) and H.

(1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942), Ray Milland in the spooky The Uninvited (1944) and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949). In 1946, Hussey starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union.

Her 1949 role in Goodbye, My Fancy on Broadway caused a Billboard reviewer to write: Miss Hussey brings a splendid aliveness and warmth to the lovely congresswoman.... Hussey played Jean Arthur's role of Miriam Starrett in the 1955 Lux Radio Theater presentation of Shane, playing alongside the film's original stars Ladd and Heflin. In 1960, she costarred in The Facts of Life with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Hussey was also active in early television drama. On August 9, 1942, Hussey married talent agent and radio producer C. They raised three children: George Longenecker, John Longenecker and Mary Elizabeth Hendrix. Following the birth of her children, Hussey focused on family activities and in 1964, she designed a family cabin in the mountain community of Lake Arrowhead, California. In 1967, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.

In 1977, Hussey and her husband moved from their Brentwood family home to Rancho Carlsbad in Carlsbad, California. Her husband died in 2002 shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary. Her son John Longenecker worked as a cinematographer and film director.

He won an Academy Award for producing the live-action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970). Hussey was also active in Catholic charities, was noted for painting in watercolors and was a lifelong Democrat although she voted for Republican Thomas Dewey in 1944. Death Hussey died on April 19, 2005 at the age of 93 from complications from an appendectomy. She is interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California. Lewis Ayres III (1908 - 1996) was an actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years.

He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine films and on radio.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Johnny Belinda (1948). As a teen, he and his mother moved with his step-father, William Gilmore, and half brother and sister to San Diego, California. Leaving high school before graduating, he started a small band which traveled to Mexico. He played banjo and guitar for big bands, including the Henry Halstead Orchestra. He recorded one of the earliest Vitaphone movie shorts called Carnival Night in Paris (Warner Brothers, 1927).

Ayres wrote, I was a member of Henry Halstead's orchestra in 1927 at the Mission Beach Ballroom in San Diego, California for the summer. My instruments were tenor banjo, long-neck banjo and guitar. After a hiatus, I rejoined Mr. Halstead with a new group, including Phil Harris, on New Year's Eve the same year for the opening night of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a memorable occasion. He left a national tour to pursue a career as an actor full-time. Ayres was discovered at a nightclub by talent agent Ivan Kahn. He was cast to play opposite Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was his leading role in the original version of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that made him a star, secured him a contract with Universal-and made him a conscientious objector to World War II. He made a number of mostly forgotten B movies for Universal, with the exception of Iron Man (1931), with Jean Harlow.

His most successful movies at this time were those he made on loan to other studios, including The Doorway to Hell (1930) with James Cagney in a supporting role, and as Janet Gaynor's leading man in both State Fair (1933) and Servants' Entrance (1934), which featured a combination of live action and Walt Disney animation in a musical dream sequence, both for Fox Films. Ayres left Universal to sign with Fox Films. In 1934, Fox listed him as one of its second tier stars. He moved to poverty row studio Republic Pictures to pursue a second career as a director, including the film Hearts in Bondage (1936), starring James Dunn and Mae Clarke.

He moved to Paramount Pictures before finally being signed to MGM in 1938. At this time, he was loaned from Paramount to play the role of Ned in Holiday (1938). The role earned him considerable critical attention, including interest from MGM to put him under contract specifically for the role of Dr. James Kildare in an upcoming film series. Ayres played the role in nine films from 1938 to 1942 (and again in a 1950s radio series) while also appearing in light comedies for MGM, including Spring Madness and Rich Man, Poor Girl (both 1938), The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939), and Fingers at the Window (1942).

His final film as Dr. Kildare, Born to Be Bad, was re-edited after he was drafted and declared himself a conscientious objector in March 1942. For his role in Johnny Belinda (1948) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; co-star Jane Wyman won for Best Actress. Ayres gradually moved to television, appearing in several anthology series in guest roles. In the summer of 1958, he hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

He was offered the part of Dr. Kildare in an NBC series but his prescient request that the show have no cigarette advertising led to the offer being withdrawn. In 1961, the part went to Richard Chamberlain. He appeared (as the vice-president) in Advise & Consent (1962), and in The Carpetbaggers (1964), but he was, by then, primarily a television actor, with only occasional film work. For a guest role in Kung Fu ("The Vanishing Image", 1974) he was nominated for an Emmy.

His documentary film Altars of the World (1976), based on a series of documentaries he made titled Altars of the East (1956), brought his Eastern philosophical beliefs to the screen and earned him critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for best documentary in 1977. Ayres guest-starred in an episode of The Bionic Woman ("Doomsday is Tomorrow", 1977) as Dr. Elijah Cooper, an elderly nuclear scientist who attempts to blackmail the world into peace. In 1985, he was cast in his first series as a regular cast member, as the father of Robert Wagner in the short-lived series Lime Street. His last role was in the made-for-TV film Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Heart (1994), also starring Wagner.

World War II conscientious objector and medic. In March 1942, Ayres was identified as a 4E conscientious objector and sent to a CO camp. As expected, the announcement that a Hollywood actor objected to the war was a major source of public outcry and debate. Within a month it was determined that he had initially requested to be A-O-1, so that he could serve as a non-combat medic.

However, the military's policy that servicemen cannot request, or be guaranteed, where they will serve, forced him to request a 4E status. Military confirmed that they would place him as a medic and in April 1942, his status was changed. He enlisted in the United States Army on May 18, 1942. He served as a first aid instructor in the United States Army before requesting a drop in rank in order to serve as a medic and chaplain's assistant in the Pacific. He was one of 16 medics who arrived under fire during the invasion of Leyte to set up evacuation hospitals, and there he provided care to soldiers and civilians in the Philippines and New Guinea.

Serving for three and a half years in the Medical Corps. He was awarded three battle stars. After the war, he resumed his career and made scores of movies, but never reached the peak of his early Hollywood stardom. Ayres was married three times. From 1931 until 1933, although they were separated much of that period.

While starring in the film Don't Bet on Love in 1933 and they wed in 1934. They separated in 1936 and divorced in March 1940. His third marriage, to Diana Hall, lasted from 1964 until his death in 1996. Their son Justin was born in 1968.

Ayres was a strict vegetarian. In 1960, Lew Ayres was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars.

His motion pictures star is located at 6385 Hollywood Boulevard while his radio star is located at 1724 Vine Street. Ayres died on December 30, 1996, two days after his 88th birthday.

His body was buried under a simple headstone at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles. The Sophomore (1929) as Fraternity Brother.

Big News (1929) as Copyboy. Garbo's The Kiss (1929) as Pierre. All Quiet on the Western Front.

Common Clay (1930) as Hugh Fullerton. The Doorway to Hell (1930) as Louie.

East Is West (1930) as Billy Benson. Many a Slip (1931) as Jerry Brooks. Up for Murder (1931) as Robert Marshall. The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931) as Bucky O'Brien. Heaven on Earth (1931) as States.

The Impatient Maiden (1932) as Dr. The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932) as Himself.

Night World (1932) as Michael Rand. Don't Bet on Love (1933) as Bill McCaffery. My Weakness (1933) as Ronnie Gregory.

Cross Country Cruise (1934) as Norman Winthrop. Let's Be Ritzy (1934) as Jimmy Sterling. She Learned About Sailors (1934) as Larry Wilson. Servants' Entrance (1934) as Erik Landstrom.

Lottery Lover (1935) as Cadet Frank Harrington. Spring Tonic (1935) as Caleb Enix. Silk Hat Kid (1935) as Eddie Howard. The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) as Woodruff'Woody' Davis.

Panic on the Air (1936) as Jerry Franklin. Shakedown (1936) as Bob Sanderson. Lady Be Careful (1936) as Chester aka Dynamite.

Murder with Pictures (1936) as Kent Murdock. The Crime Nobody Saw (1937) as Nick Milburn. The Last Train from Madrid (1937) as Bill Dexter. Hold'em Navy (1937) as Tommy Graham.

Scandal Street (1938) as Joe McKnight. King of the Newsboys (1938) as Jerry Flynn. Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938) as Henry Thayer. Spring Madness (1938) as Sam Thatcher.

The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) as Eddie Burgess. Broadway Serenade (1939) as James Geoffrey Seymour. These Glamour Girls (1939) as Philip S.

Kildare's Strange Case (1940) as Dr. The Golden Fleecing (1940) as Henry Twinkle. Kildare Goes Home (1940) as Dr.

Kildare's Crisis (1940) as Dr. Maisie Was a Lady (1941) as Bob Rawlston. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) as Dr.

Kildare's Victory (1942) as Dr. Fingers at the Window (1942) as Oliver Duffy. The Dark Mirror (1946) as Dr. The Unfaithful (1947) as Larry Hannaford. The Way of Peace (1947, Short) as Narrator (voice).

The Capture (1950) as Vanner. New Mexico (1951) as Capt. No Escape (1953) as John Howard Tracy.

The Ford Show with Tennessee Ernie Ford (1958, TV series) as Father John Gerald. The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960, TV series) as Howard Moon.

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (NBC, 1961, TV series) as Dr. Advise & Consent (1962) as the U. Vice President - Harley Hudson. The Carpetbaggers (1964) as'Mac' McAllister. Gunsmoke (1967, TV series) as Cole in "The Prodigal".

The Doris Day Show (1970, TV series) as William Tyler. My Three Sons (1970, TV series) Professor Harper. Earth II (1971, TV movie) as U. The Biscuit Eater (1972) as Mr. The Man (1972) as U.

The Stranger (1973, TV movie) as Prof. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) as Mandemus.

Elias Haig in "Anybody Can Build a Bomb" (S6/Ep12). Hawkins (1973, TV series) in "Blood Feud" (S1/Ep4). The Questor Tapes (1974, TV movie) as Vaslovik. The Magician (1974, TV series) as Max Braden in "The Illusion Of The Evil Spikes". (1974, TV movie) as Dr. Columbo: Mind over Mayhem (NBC, 1974, TV series) as Dr. Kung Fu (ABC, 1974) as Beaumont. Nominated for an Emmy, Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series - 1975. Little House on the Prairie (NBC, 1976). The Bionic Woman (1977, TV series) as Dr. The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977, TV series) as Dr. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1977, TV series) as Doug Booth. End of the World (1977) as Beckerman. Damien - Omen II (1978) as Bill Atherton. Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World (1978) as Twelve Colonies President Adar. Salem's Lot (1979, TV movie) as Jason Burke. Little House a new Beginning (1983) as Mr McCarey.

The World of Don Camillo (1984) as Doc. The A-Team: The Grey Team (1986) as Bernie Greene.

Philip Morris Playhouse-episode Dark Victory (1952). Young, and an American mom, Margaret Fyfe.

The family moved to various locations within the U. Including Seattle as well as Los Angeles, where Young was a student at Abraham Lincoln High School.

After graduation, he studied and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse while working odd jobs and appearing in bit parts in silent films. Young made his talkie debut at Fox in the 1931 Charlie Chan film Black Camel, starring Warner Oland.

Young appeared in over 100 films between 1928 and 1952. In spite of having a "tier B" status, he snuck into films with many illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, Helen Twelvetrees and Loretta Young.

Most of his assignments consisted of short B movies, also known as "programmers", which required brief two- to three-week shooting schedules. Actors who were relegated to such hectic routines appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year. As an MGM contract player, Young was obligated to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension-and many actors who were placed on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all, even those unrelated to the film industry. This worked to Young's benefit. In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British in the U.

For two films; the first, Secret Agent, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, while the other, It's Love Again, co-starred Jessie Matthews. While in England, he was convinced that MGM intended to terminate his contract, but he was mistaken.

He unexpectedly received two of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in two King Vidor films: Northwest Passage (1940) with Spencer Tracy, and H. (1941), which also benefited from one of Hedy Lamarr's most effective performances.

He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery and other A-list actors had rejected. After his contract with MGM expired, Young starred in light comedies, and even noir, for studios such as Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. Post- 1943, Young had challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Won't Believe Me, The Second Woman, and Crossfire. His portrayals of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films-which had seldom been the case in his MGM pictures-were applauded by numerous critics. And he played the second lead in Secret of the Incas (1954) starring Charlton Heston, the film upon which Raiders of the Lost Ark was subsequently loosely based.

But, despite the picture's superior quality while being shot on location at Machu Picchu, it was the last feature film in which he appeared. Young's career had begun an incremental and almost imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio. He had continued starring as an aging leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but only in mediocre films, and occasionally playing supporting roles in important films. Then, he subsequently disappeared from the silver screen-only to reappear, successfully, several years later on a much smaller one. Elinor Donahue ("Betty"), Billy Gray ("Bud"), and Lauren Chapin ("Kathy") played the Anderson kids in the TV version.

Young's last series was Marcus Welby, M. This show earned a final Emmy for Young, for best leading actor in a drama series. Outside of his series work, he made his greatest TV impressions sharing the stage on The Dick Cavett Show with Jimi Hendrix in September 1969, and guesting in. Numerous commercials for Sanka coffee.

Young was married to Betty Henderson for 61 years from 1933 until her death in 1994. They had four daughters: Carol Proffitt, Barbara Beebe, Kathy Young, and Betty Lou Gleason. They also had six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Despite his portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness toward Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991. Later, he spoke candidly about his personal problems in an effort to encourage others to seek help.

The center started in Rock Island, Illinois, and now has sites in both Iowa and Illinois, as part of the Quad-City metropolitan area. Young died of respiratory failure at his Westlake Village, California, home on July 21, 1998.

He has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1928 The Godless Girl Student. 1931 The Black Camel Jimmy Bradshaw A Warner Oland / Charlie Chan film. 1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet Dr. Lawrence Claudet Alternative title: The Lullaby.

1931 Hell Divers Graham - Pilot Reporting Missing Airplanes. 1931 The Guilty Generation Marco Ricca-aka John Smith. 1932 The Wet Parade Kip Tarleton.

1932 New Morals for Old Ralph Thomas. 1932 Strange Interlude Gordon Evans. 1932 EDDIE CANTOR's The Kid from Spain Ricardo.

1933 Men Must Fight Lt. 1933 Today We Live Claude. 1933 Hell Below Lieutenant (JG) Ed "Brick" Walters. 1933 BEERY + DRESSLER Tugboat Annie "Alec" Brennan.

1933 Saturday's Millions Jim Fowler. 1933 The Right to Romance Bobby Preble. 1934 ARLISS The House of Rothschild Captain Fitzroy. 1934 Lazy River William "Bill" Drexel. 1934 3 STOOGES LAUREL+HARDY Hollywood Party Himself.

1934 Whom the Gods Destroy Jack Forrester. 1934 Paris Interlude Pat Wells. 1934 Death on the Diamond Larry Kelly. 1934 The Band Plays On Tony Ferrera.

1934 La ciudad de cartón Himself. 1935 West Point of the Air Little Mike Stone.

1935 Vagabond Lady Tony Spear. 1935 Calm Yourself Preston'Pat' Patton. 1935 Red Salute Uncle Sam. 1935 The Bride Comes Home Jack Bristow. 1936 It's Love Again Peter Carlton. 1936 The Three Wise Guys Joe Hatcher.

1936 HITCHCOCK Secret Agent Robert Marvin. 1936 The Bride Walks Out Hugh McKenzie. 1936 Sworn Enemy Henry'Hank' Sherman. 1936 The Longest Night Charley Phelps.

1936 TEMPLE Stowaway Tommy Randall. 1937 Dangerous Number'Hank' Medhill. 1937 I Met Him in Paris Gene. 1937 Married Before Breakfast Tom. 1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks Grand Duke.

1937 The Bride Wore Red Rudi. 1937 Navy Blue and Gold Roger Ash. 1938 Paradise for Three Fritz Hagedorn.

1938 SCOTT FITZGERALD Three Comrades Gottfried. 1938 The Toy Wife Andre. 1938 Rich Man, Poor Girl Bill. 1938 The Shining Hour David. 1939 Bridal Suite Neil McGill.

1939 Miracles for Sale "Mike". 1940 The Mortal Storm Fritz. 1941 Trial of Mary Dugan Jimmy. 1941 Lady Be Good "Eddie". 1942 Joe Smith, American Joe.

1942 Journey for Margaret John. 1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady Sam. 1944 The Canterville Ghost Cuffy. 1945 Those Endearing Young Charms'Hank.

1946 Claudia and David David. 1946 The Searching Wind Alex.

1947 They Won't Believe Me Larry. 1948 CLIFTON WEBB Sitting Pretty Harry. 1949 Adventure in Baltimore Sheldon.

1949 That Forsyte Woman Philip Bosinney. 1949 Bride for Sale Steve.

1949 And Baby Makes Three "Vern". 1950 The Second Woman Jeff.

1951 Goodbye, My Fancy Merrill. 1952 The Half-Breed Dan Craig. 1954 The Big Moment Narrator.

1954 Secret of the Incas Stanley. 1954 Ford Television Theatre Tom Warren 1 episode. Lieutenant Commander Knowles 1 episode. 1961 Window on Main Street Cameron Garrett Brooks 17 episodes.

1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre: The Admiral Admiral Matt Callahan 1 episode. 1968 The Name of the Game Herman Allison 1 episode. 1972 All My Darling Daughters Judge Charles Raleigh Television film. 1973 My Darling Daughters' Anniversary Judge Charles Raleigh Television film. 1977 Father Knows Best Reunion Jim Anderson Television film.

1977 Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas Jim Anderson Television film. 1978 Little Women Grandpa James Lawrence Television film. 1984 The Return of Marcus Welby, M.

1987 American Masters Edward "Eddie" Crane 1 episode. 1987 A Conspiracy of Love Joe Woldarski TV film. 1943 Suspense Episode: A Friend to Alexander. 1946 Suspense Episode: "The Night Reveals". 1952 Suspense Episode: "The Frameup".