Though born in 1894 in Washington, D.C., the family business was theatre, not the politics of President Grover Cleveland’s administration. With an actor for a father – Henry Dupree Sinclair – the future Ruth Sinclair would also begin her career on the stage before turning to film, where she wrote for silent stars such as Lillian Gish, Greta Garbo, and Joan Crawford.
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