Along Came Ruth is a 1924 American comedy film starring Viola Dana. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Winifred Dunn, based on Holman Francis Day's play of the same name, itself based on the play La Demoiselle de magasin by Belgians Frantz Fonson and Fernand Wicheler.Progressive Silent Film List: Along Came Ruth at silentera.com Viola Dana was one of the top stars of the newly amalgamated MGM, a lively comedian who enjoyed a long career that faded with the emergence of the talkies.Eames, John Douglas (1975). This Is MGM's First Ever Film, The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years. Octopus Books, p. 13.
Synopsis Ruth is a small-town live-wire who takes over a furniture shop and its owner's nephew.
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Preservation With no prints of Along Came Ruth located in any film archives, it is lost film.
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