Ruth Clifford

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford February 17 1900 November 30 1998 was an American actress of leading roles in silent films whose career lasted from silent days into the television era Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal in fairly substantial roles She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines 1916 By her midtwenties she was playing leads and second leads including the role of Abraham Lincolns lost love Ann Rutledge in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln 1924 But sound pictures found her roles diminishing and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts She was a favorite of director John Ford they played bridge together who used her in eight films but rarely in substantial roles She was also for a time the voice of Walt Disneys Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck Cliffords obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era