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She was educated in Paris.
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Ruth Shepley
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A Broadway performer, she was trim, with blonde hair, and medium height. Shepley"s debut as an actress came in 1908 at the Bijou Theatre. She appeared in All Foreign A Girl.
Subsequent performances at the same venue included acting in A Gentleman of Leisure (1911), The Brute (1912), The Fatted Calf (1912), Nearly Married (1913), and lieutenant Pays To Advertise (1914).
Quite a few of her early stage work came under the management of David Belasco and George M. Cohan. Her most noted production was The Boomerang (1915) in which Shepley played the part of Grace Tyler at the Belasco Theatre.
In 1921 Shepley appeared at the Cort Theatre in Her Salary Manitoba The following year she made her first London performance in Lawful Larceny.
Her final work as an actress came with Helen Hayes in Ladies and Gentlemen (1939), a production staged in Santa Barbara, California.
During World War I Shepley was a captain in the American Women"s Voluntary Services. In World World War II she was featured in an eight month tour of the Pacific Rim in Dear Ruth. The entertainment was under the auspices of the United Services Organization.
