Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the straightforward Sarah Meyer in the television series "87th Precinct". Born Ruth Stromberg, upon completing her formal education at the Neighborhood Playhouse in her native New York City, New York, and began to appear as a leading lady on the stage in such productions as "The Glass Menagerie," "Allegro," "Gentleman's Agreement," "Harvey," "Carousel," "Bloomer Girl," "Guys and Dolls," and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." After years of stage work, she began a career in the film industry in the mid-1950s beginning with a major role in "The Blue Gardenia" (1953) and for the next 20 years she would go on to enjoy a successful career as a character actress; often typecast as wives, mothers, love interests, nurses, secretaries, retail clerks, salesladies, landlords, neighbors, best friends, sidekicks, exotics, femme fatales, city slickers, housekeepers, educators, doctors, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "Slaves of Babylon" (1953), "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955), "The Buccaneer" (1958), "Bells Are Ringing" (1960), "In Cold Blood" (1967), and "Rich and Famous" (1981). During the advent of television, she became a familiar face appearing in numerous sitcoms on such syndicated sitcoms as "Climax!," "The 20th-Century Fox Hour," "Alcoa Theatre," "Have Gun - Will Travel," "The Loretta Young Show," "One Step Beyond," "Ben Casey," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Donna Reed Show," "The Eleventh Hour," "Peyton Place," and "The Streets of San Francisco." During her career, she was an honorary member of Actors Equity, was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church following her convert from Judaism, had been a supporter of the California State Republican Committee, was a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and the March of Dimes, had been a notable oil painter, was recognized as the 1955 Deb Star, and she had been married to fellow actor Richard Conte from 1943 until their divorce in 1963 (their union produced one adopted son, film and television editor Mark Conte). In 1981, she withdrew from acting and after attending a course in social welfare from the UCLA, she attained a master's degree in social welfare, co-funded the Center for Human Problems, and went on too have her own private practice as a highly notable psychoanalyst until her death.