page_title: Ruth Roman
section_title: Warner Bros.
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth Roman / Career / Warner Bros.
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Ruth Roman from the trailer for the film Strangers on a Train.
context_page_description: Ruth Roman was an American actress of film, stage, and television.
  After playing stage roles in the East Coast, Roman relocated to Hollywood to pursue a career in films. She appeared in several uncredited bit parts before she was cast as the leading lady in the Western Harmony Trail and as the title role in the serial film Jungle Queen, her first credited film performances.
  Roman's first starring role was as Belle Starr's Daughter. She achieved her first notable success with a role in The Window and a year later was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her performance in Champion. In the early 1950s, she was under contract to Warner Bros., where she starred in a variety of films, including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train.
  In the mid-1950s, after leaving Warner Bros., Roman continued to star in films and also began playing guest roles for television series. She also worked abroad and made films in England, Italy, and Spain. In 1959, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the play Two for the Seesaw. Her numerous television appearances earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
context_section_description: In recognition of Roman's rising status as an actor, Warner Bros. signed her to a long-term contract in 1949, casting her first as a supporting player for Bette Davis in Beyond the Forest and then for Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing. The studio in 1950 cast her as the female lead in two Westerns, Barricade with Dane Clark and Colt .45 with Randolph Scott.
  Warners gave her a star role in Three Secrets (1950), alongside fellow contractees Eleanor Parker and Patricia Neal. She played a distraught mother waiting to learn whether or not her child survived an airplane crash. This was followed by Dallas (1950), where she was Gary Cooper's leading lady. The May 1, 1950, issue of Life magazine featured Roman in a cover story, "The Rapid Rise of Ruth Roman".
  Roman got top billing in Lightning Strikes Twice (1951), directed by King Vidor with Richard Todd. She was Farley Granger's love interest in Strangers on a Train (1951), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
  Roman was top-billed in the thriller Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), co-starring Steve Cochran. She was one of many Warners stars in Starlift (1951), the studio tribute to the Korean War.
  She was loaned to MGM for Invitation (1952) then co-starred with Errol Flynn in a B action film, Mara Maru (1952). She went back to MGM to play Glenn Ford's love interest in Young Man with Ideas (1952) and was reunited with Cooper in Blowing Wild (1953), only this time she was billed beneath Barbara Stanwyck.
caption: Roman in the trailer for Strangers on a Train (1951)
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