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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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Writer, actress |
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57 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
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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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Ruby Berkley Goodwin Height, Weight & Measurements
At 57 years old, Ruby Berkley Goodwin height not available right now. We will update Ruby Berkley Goodwin's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Ruby Berkley Goodwin Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ruby Berkley Goodwin worth at the age of 57 years old? Ruby Berkley Goodwin’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Ruby Berkley Goodwin's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
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.
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.
They had five children together.
Goodwin won a poetry award in 1935 at the Los Angeles Festival of Arts.
She was personal secretary and publicist to actress Hattie McDaniel from 1936 to 1951.
She wrote short sketches to accompany William Grant Still's Twelve Negro Spirituals (1937).
She is said to have helped McDaniel write her 1940 Oscars acceptance speech.
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.
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.
In 1949, she earned a bachelor's degree studying "world peace and understanding" from San Gabriel College.
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.
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.
