- Ruth Mix
infobox actress
birthdate=birth date|1912|7|13
birthplace=Dewey, Oklahoma
deathdate=death date and age|1977|9|21|1912|7|13
deathplace=Corpus Christi, Texas
occupation=Film actress Nadine Ruth Mix (1912 – 1977) was the daughter of western film star
Tom Mix , and aB-movie actress during the 1930s.Born in
Dewey, Oklahoma , to Tom and Olive Stokes Mix, she started her acting career following in her fathers footsteps. In the mid-1920s she starred in severalsilent film s. She made a total of twelve westerns, particularly "The Tonto Kid ", "Fighting Pioneers ", "Saddle Aces " and "Gunfire", all made in 1935. In 1936 she starred in threecliffhanger serials, "The Black Coin ", "The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand ", and "Custer's Last Stand ".She played the female lead in a few B-westerns, starring alongside Wally Walls and
Hoot Gibson . She then retired from acting and began taking the lead role for her fatherscircus and wild west show. That business wentbankrupt by the end of the 1930s, during theGreat Depression . After that, she all but disappeared from acting circles. Some accounts say that she died in 1972, but it is most commonly believed that she died in 1977.External links
*imdb|0594290
*amg name|2:49761
* [http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies31.htm B-Western Ladies, Ruth Mix]
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