'Ruth Brown' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Brown, Ruth Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Village Music: Last of the Great Record Stores

  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Whole Lotta Shakin'

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Ruth Brown: Better Late Than Never

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Lightning in a Bottle

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Standing in the Shadows of Motown

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 22nd Annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards

  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Mark Twain Prize: Richard Pryor

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen B.B. King: The Blues Summit

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Shake, Rattle and Rock!

  1994, role: actress , character name: Ella
• Play in Full Screen Abbey Lincoln: You Gotta Pay the Band

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Dancing Man

  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen True Identity

  1991, role: actress , character name: Martha
• Play in Full Screen The Ladies Sing the Blues

  1989, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Hairspray

  1988, role: actress , character name: Motormouth Maybelle
• Play in Full Screen That Rhythm, Those Blues

  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Under the Rainbow

  1981, role: actress , character name: Cleaning Woman
• Play in Full Screen Rock 'n' Roll Revue

  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Rhythm and Blues Revue

  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself

Brown, Ruth Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Let Me Not

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Let Me Not

  2007, role: director

Brown, Ruth Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Omega

  2013, role: actress , character name: Infiltrator

Famous quotes by Ruth Brown:

"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."

"There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues."

"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."

"And, of course, I was singing cheap."

"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."

"Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays."

"There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff."

"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."

"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."

"I was like the queen of the South."

"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."

"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."

"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."

"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."

"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."

Ruth Brown

Born: 1928-01-30

Died: 2006-11-17