Interview with the veteran actress Thelma Ruby

22nd October 2009

 

INTERVIEW: THELMA RUBY

The 84-year-old actress, current appearing in Stewart Permutt’s Many Roads to Paradise at the Jermyn Street Theatre, talks to the show’s director Anthony Biggs about a glorious career that has spanned seven decades.

Perhaps another exciting one was Orson Welles, because I played Mistress Quickly to his Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight. He disappeared for two weeks of the three weeks rehearsal…