Background
Ruby Goodwin was born on October 17, 1903 in DuQuoin. She is the daughter of Braxton Berkley, a coal miner and union organizer, and Sophia Jane Holmes, who had nine other children.
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1942
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1944
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1953
Ruby Goodwin was born on October 17, 1903 in DuQuoin. She is the daughter of Braxton Berkley, a coal miner and union organizer, and Sophia Jane Holmes, who had nine other children.
Ruby graduated from high school and, in 1920, moved with her parents to Imperial Valley in California. She attended San Diego State Teachers’ College for one year.
In 1936-1952 Ruby worked as a syndicated columnist of “Hollywood in Bronze,”; secretary and publicist for actor Hattie McDaniel in 1936-52. Only after that became an actress appearing in the films The View from Pompey’s Head, 1955, Strange Intruder, 1956, The Alligator People, 1959, and Wild in the Country, 1961.
In 1924, Ruby married Lee Goodwin, an auto mechanic. They had five children and adopted another.
