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Ruby Berkley Goodwin was born on 17 October, 1903 in Du Quoin, Illinois, US, is an American writer. Discover Ruby Berkley Goodwin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Writer, actress
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 17 October 1903
Birthday 17 October
Birthplace Du Quoin, Illinois, US
Date of death 31 May, 1961
Died Place Los Angeles, California, US
Nationality United States

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1903

Ruby Berkley Goodwin (October 17, 1903 – May 31, 1961) was an American writer and actress.

Ruby Berkley was born in Du Quoin, Illinois, the daughter of Braxton Berkley and Sophia Jane Holmes Berkley.

Her father was a coal miner and union organizer.

The family moved to California when Ruby was a teenager.

She trained as a teacher at San Diego State Teachers' College.

Later she attended Fullerton Junior College.

1915

Her younger brother Thomas Lucius Berkley (1915–2001) became a noted attorney and newspaper publisher in Oakland, California.

Berkley taught in El Centro, California as a young woman.

1924

Ruby Berkley married mechanic Lee Goodwin in 1924.

They had five children together.

1935

Goodwin won a poetry award in 1935 at the Los Angeles Festival of Arts.

1936

She was personal secretary and publicist to actress Hattie McDaniel from 1936 to 1951.

1937

She wrote short sketches to accompany William Grant Still's Twelve Negro Spirituals (1937).

1940

She is said to have helped McDaniel write her 1940 Oscars acceptance speech.

She worked for Ethel Waters in a similar capacity.

With her syndicated column, "Hollywood in Bronze", she was "the first accredited Black Hollywood correspondent".

In the 1940s she began acting on stage, in Los Angeles productions including The Little Foxes, Nine Pine Street, Anna Lucasta, The Member of the Wedding, Winesburg, Ohio, and The Male Animal.

1942

Her poetry was collected in From My Kitchen Window (1942) and A Gold Star Mother Speaks (1944).

She wrote a musical, American Rhapsody (1942), a series of radio scripts, a novel, and a collection of autobiographical essays, It's Good to Be Black (1953).

She was the first Black author to win a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California.

Hugh H. Smythe reviewed It's Good to Be Black in The Crisis harshly, concluding that it "makes no real contribution towards improving relations between the races".

More recent assessments find the book to be a valuable record of black life in Southern Illinois mining country.

1949

In 1949, she earned a bachelor's degree studying "world peace and understanding" from San Gabriel College.

1955

On film, she had roles in The View from Pompey's Head (1955), Strange Intruder (1956), The Alligator People (1959), High Time (1960), and Wild in the Country (1961).

On television, she appeared in episodes of Cavalcade of America (1955, 1956), My Little Margie (1955), Star Stage (1956), Chevron Hall of Stars (1956), The Fireside Theatre (1956), General Electric Theater (1956), The Ford Television Theatre (1956, 1957), The Loretta Young Show (1957), Wagon Train (1957), The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958), The Texan (1958), and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959).

She was named California's Mother of the Year in 1955.

1961

She died in Los Angeles in 1961, aged 57 years, from breast cancer.

One of her sons, Robert Lee Goodwin, built a career in Hollywood as a screenwriter.