Ruth Stevens

{{short description|Swedish actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Ruth Stevens | image = Ruth Stevens.jpg | image_size = 190px | caption = Stevens onstage in ''Grand Hotel'' (1933) | birth_date = 21 March 1903 | birth_place = Norrköping, Sweden | death_date = 27 March 1989 | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | birth_name = Ruth Astrid Frideborg Nilsson | other_names = Ruth Roeck-Hansen | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1931–1989 (film) | spouse = {{plainlist| *{{marriage|Gösta Stevens|1928|1933|end=divorce}} *{{marriage|Harry Roeck-Hansen|1946|1959|end=died}} }} }}

'''Ruth Stevens''' (born '''Ruth Astrid Frideborg Nilsson'''; 21 March 1903 – 27 March 1989) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She was generally cast playing degenerate young woman.<ref>Nordic National Cinemas p.168</ref> She was married to the film director Gösta Stevens and the actor Harry Roeck-Hansen.

==Selected filmography== * ''Skipper's Love'' (1931) * ''Love and Deficit'' (1932) * ''Black Roses'' (1932) * ''Dear Relatives'' (1933) * ''Wife for a Day'' (1933) * ''A Wedding Night at Stjarnehov'' (1934) * ''He, She and the Money'' (1936) * ''It Pays to Advertise'' (1936) * ''Witches' Night'' (1937) * ''Career'' (1938) * ''Circus'' (1939) * ''If I Could Marry the Minister'' (1941) * ''The Yellow Clinic'' (1942)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Iverson, Gunnar, Soderbergh Widding, Astrid & Soila, Tytti. ''Nordic National Cinemas''. Routledge, 2005.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0828753}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Ruth}} Category:1903 births Category:1989 deaths Category:Swedish film actresses Category:Swedish stage actresses Category:20th-century Swedish actresses Category:Actors from Norrköping Category:Actresses from Östergötland County