I saw her once in a drugstore in Hollywood. She winked at me when she caught me looking.

Just watched "Harold and Maude"- she was sensational - so great! What a talent. Great film- great acting from all and what a story.

Ruth Gordon is life, life, life. I don’t even think she ever got old; and when she died, I think she just opened another door and simply walked through.

how can you not love this incredible Lady?

Truly I feel Ruth' is one of the greatest actresses. Harold and Maude, Rosemary's baby, and of course the Every which way you can movies' just truly keep me entranced to this very day... Her comedic talent and realness kept her in a class of being one of the greatest entertainers..

What a gem she was. Just so compelling to watch. She's infinitely fascinating and such classy speech patterns and that incredible upper east side accent. She would have been fun to have as a neighbor and chat with.

No one like her. Beautiful woman and magnetic. A treasure. Godspeed, Ruth.

She is incredible, like her character in Rosemary's Baby she is I see now naturally funny without even trying; just unbelievable and her voice is crazy fabulous

Woody Allen, Ruth Gordon and Dick Cavett on the same stage. I loved Ruth for her humor, intelligence and quirky charm. She was truly an original.

Definitely Maude incarnate. Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins cast her perfectly in that role in Harold and Maude. She is completely future-focused and postivist. There is not a backward molecule in her body and mind. Not one.

Love seeing her and Woody together. She is dressed so classy. Great outfit.

GD I love these folks. She played a murderer on a Columbo and was so f-ing charming. I absolutely ADORE her.

Love this woman!!! So fun to watch Woody Allen enjoying her, too.

Her wit and energy eclipses so many.

LOVE this lady!

I love how Woody is absolutely rapt while listening to her.

Loved her as Minnie rosemarys baby when she was eating the cake so funny

She's adorable! :) Thanks so much for uploading this. I love how she spends so much time talking directly to the audience.

It' just lovely to listen to her tell her stories ! What a charming and talented woman she was...And her Oscar acceptance speech for "Rosemary's baby" was one of my favorites !!!!

goodness I could listen to her all day long :)

You can't help but smile. What a wonderful spirit.

I first saw her in an episode of Columbo, and looked for her other work after that.

I do love that pink outfit on her ~ I've always loved her...my first trip to New York we went into this cafe where a lot of actors have been and left their picture autographed..and her picture was right there where we sat down to eat! :)

👍🤣Such a supremely cool lady!!

I adore Ruth Gordon so, so much. A clarification about her $5 in August of 1915: I just went to the US Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator website and $5 in August of 1915 was worth about $18.32 in August of 1969, so her guess that it was worth about $250 is way off.

What an amazing lady. Just love her!!!!!!!!!!

If one actress could put a smile on my face it was Ruth Gordon. Thanks Ruth!

relatively speaking...she's BRILLIANT.

Look at Woody Allen with his jaw dropping!

You've got to love Ruth Gordon, absolutely adorable, a national treasure. If only she wasn't so private and closemouthed. Bless you dear lady.

Gordon won an Oscar, a Primetime Emmy, and two Golden Globe Awards for her acting, as well as three Academy Award nominations for her writing died 1985

She's got wit, humor and charisma she doesn't need to be asked questions.

She had that swag

Not at all. She was right on it. That was her personality and style. She was an amazing writer and actress. Notice that the focus was on her the entire time. and she knew it.

Why didn't Woody Allen make a movie with Ruth Gordon in it, that would have been terrific? He wouldn't have even had to write lines for her.

2 of my favorites on the same show!

Such an Amazing lady and actress.

She was brilliant here. The first is always best. Nature’s first gold, is green.

She had a broad range, she could do weird, funny. sad, and absolutely wild n crazy! My mother loved her, so when the Clint Eastwood "orangutan" humor movies came out, I was the only 10 yr old that knew who she was.

I first saw her in Harold and Maude, at which time I decided I wanted to be like her when I "grew up" (I was in my late 20's). Her in that role was a kind of a blueprint or guideline for me, even moreso as I got older. She really does seem the real life version of that character. It was also fun that Dick thought she was so amusing while Woody seemed to be dissecting her conversation for an upcoming character. If this was Cavett's last show I can't think of anybody better to spend it with....In her character and real life it's all an interesting, often amusing story, no need to worry or be sad...just do your part then move on to the next episode. Without meaning to she has helped to change my life in the best possible way!

My Favorite Ruth Gordon Line: "You Bastards!!!" from Every Which Way But Loose. Then She Starts Shooting!

She was a livewire!!!!

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar. Hey, it could happen.

love you ruth. you were amazing

I hope I get to meet Ruth in heaven someday.

Amazing woman.

P.s.watching woody allen react to her comments is priceless

Ruth had a brief cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall as an elderly woman who Alvy talks to about love after Annie leaves him. She's carrying groceries and says: Love fades & Alvy nods confusingly.

Man that was a cool lady.

A national treasure. Adorable.

Everything she says is fascinating. She doesn't need anyone else onstage.

She doesn't have a motor mouth. Anyone of Irish background worth their salt can talk non stop about anything. i'm of Irish background so I can say that.

She was a classic in "Where's Papa"

Who doesn’t love Ruth Hordon,,,,she’s awesome.

I love ruthy she is so amazing a little spitfire

ruth gordon in what ever happened to aunt alice, priceless

harold and maude

Oh my goodness she was AMAZING 👏😍

I love Ruth Gordon. I miss her. This is GREAT.

I LOVE HER!!!!!

Pure magic!

Not sure what year this was, but imagine this gift: she was 72 years old in 1969 when she won an Academy Award. She continued on to make more than 20 films after Rosemary's Baby. She must be at least 75 here. Now that is one life well lived. It is so lovely to hear her classic 20th century trans-Atlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent, it is so elegant, a mixture of English and Southern.

My first exposure to her was Any Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood

Ironic that years later, Woody Allen would marry Gordon's ROSEMARY'S BABY co-star, Mia Farrow.

The Greatest

Love her so much and I'm from Wollaston too:)

Great LADY! Love her!! Miss her!!! Dick Cavett- So pompous...

what a sweetheart

When she talks about Dick Cavett's show "closing," she's referring to this, his Summer 1969 prime time show which ran three nights a week.

awesome woman.. remarkably talented and funny!!!!.....

Yes. It's a classic.

Dick Cavett was such a great host and mild mannered gent for allowing Ruth Gordon to gush forth with her charm.

nobody brings a "pocketbook" onto a talk show anymore!! cute

How come screen quality of these old talkshows is most of the time better than anything on here from the nineties???

Better than Hepburn, Davis, Crawford, Taylor, etc... They were all worth their weight in gold. However, R.G.'s gold, for me, glittered the brightest & was always the one worth paying close & the closest attention to.😂

The only film I knew her from was Any Which Way But Loose as Ma with a shotgun battling bikers, the DMV, and an orangutan.

The earlier the generation of actors , the more talented they were . Those born in the 1870s to 1930s were the greatest of all time

I love her outfit. Work! ♥️

look at Allen being a director-he knows how to watch people.

No I am not related to miss Gordon bit how I wish I 💕 loved her..and still doGod bless her amazing soul

Too short!😞

She was a creepy scary women in Columbo - try and catch me....I nearly shit myself!!!

@Chamariiita -- Sorry, but look carefully. There is two old lady scenes, one where an white haired woman asked, Can't you find anyone? But in the scene where Alvy finds Annie with her professor and he wanders the street talking to people, Ruth is the woman who appears briefly with grocery bags and says love fades.

She talks so much sense

Haha she's right ! i live about 20 minutes from Fall River MA It would've been a long haul. She was awesome in whatever happened to aunt ALice?

Boy she can talk!

@nilsdrew very true and you can not find it anywhere! (Page equally was great amazing)

I just adore her but I assumed she had that great thick new york accent.

OMG LOL

I don't like the way the audience is laughing *AT* her more than *WITH* her.

My Word . What she must have thought , when she cast for . Every Which Way But Lose .

This should be entitled; Ruth Gordon on Progress. cavetbiter, you belittle Ruth Gordon saying the things you do about her. Dick Cavett was a great host who had a wonderful sense of humor and had tact, unlike subsequent talk show hosts.

5:20...

at 6:34 he says "climaxing in me" and one person in the audience snickers

@7beers THERE NOT LAUGHING AT HER, THEY ARE CHARMED BY HER

@BaaBaaRaa .. If you have never seen Ruth in "Columbo", check her out. She's at the top of her game.

If the words 'delightful genuis' were in the dictionary together, her pretty face would be there to describe it.

She a lot like her character on Harold and Maude. She talk to much but I like her personality.

I love Ruth Gordon and have watched her endlessly in Rosemary's Baby but I have to ask, is she high here??

I love Ruth Gordon! XX, Gay