Morley, Ruth

Ruth Morley was born around 1926 in Vienna, Austria. In January 1939 she was one of the approximately 10,000 children who were transported to Britain through the Kindertransport in 1938-1939. After receiving her early education in Vienna and Croydon, England, Ruth Morley moved to the United States in 1941. She attended the Washington Irving Fine Arts High School, and the Cooper Union Art School.

With limited language skills, her natural talent in drawing initially helped her go through school by exchanging sketches for biology assignments with help in homework, and later helped support her family by creating greeting cards and cell animation. While still in high school she worked designing sets for summer-stock productions at the Cleveland Playhouse. Soon she realized that “she did not like the mechanical aspects of set designing” and turned to work in a costume house.

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