Education
Born in 1897 in New York City, to Joseph and Eva (née Cohn) Trueman, she was raised in Manhattan and attended Hunter College before gaining admission to the Neighborhood Playhouse to study dancing.
Born in 1897 in New York City, to Joseph and Eva (née Cohn) Trueman, she was raised in Manhattan and attended Hunter College before gaining admission to the Neighborhood Playhouse to study dancing.
Her stage career began with The Grand Street Follies revues in 1924, and at the end of that year she made her dramatic debut in The Little Clay Cart. She was also in the 1930 revue Sweet and Low, which starred Fannie Brice, George Jessel, and James Barton, and appeared in Kiss and Tell, Foreign Love or Money and Wake Up, Darling in the 1940s and 1950s. Her film debut was in Crime Without Passion (1934).
She later played Mistress
Fenty in Paint Your Wagon and "Grandma Sarah" in The Outlaw Josey Wales. She appeared in Annie Hall and Zelig (both by Woody Allen), Dirty Dancing, and an uncredited role in Moonstruck.
In 1978, she played Maggie Flannigan in All My Children. Trueman died of natural causes in New York Hospital in 1994, aged 96.