Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick June 29 1916 January 15 2005 DM was a longtime American singer Hollywood GoldenAge actress and political activist best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005 She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed standingroomonly audience to which she spoke afterward She made her film debut as Kanes first wife Over the years she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane in which she would write Property of Ruth Warrick Mrs Citizen Kane She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia