Ruth Tester
Ruth Tester was an American singer and dancer in Broadway musicals of the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Tester was born on August 17, 1903. She was married for 59 years to Fredrick Carothers. In her later years, Tester and her husband lived in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Carothers worked as a sales executive, and died in 1990.Tester sang "Sing Something Simple" in "The [Garrick Gaieties]" of 1930 at the Guild Theatre in New York City and performed with Rosalind Russell and Imogene Coca. She also danced with Allan Gould in the short subject film, "Makers of Melody ", singing the Rodgers and Hart song "Manhattan", often called, "I'll Take Manhattan". Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart appeared in this short as themselves. "Manhattan" was Rodgers and Hart's first hit.
Tester died at the age of 89 in a nursing home in Weston, Massachusetts on March 21, 1993.
Broadway stage credits
- Lollipop, Knickerbocker Theatre Ruth Tester in ensemble
- A Lucky Break, Cort Theater Ruth Tester as Claudia
- Bunk of 1926, Heckscher Theater and Broadhurst Theatre
- The Garrick Gaieties of 1930, Guild Theatre, Ruth Tester as herself
- Second Little Show, Royale Theatre
- The Garrick Gaieties of 1930, Guild Theatre, Ruth Tester as herself
- The Ramblers, Lyric Theatre Ruth Tester as Jenny Wren
- The Gang's All Here, Imperial Theatre Ruth Tester as Peggy
Filmography
- Makers of Melody, Ruth Tester as herself