Ruth Sobotka [SEP] cause of death
Cordelia in "King Lear".
Personal life.
Sobotka was the second wife of film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999). The couple met in 1952; they married on 15 January 1955 and divorced in 1957. An earlier marriage to Donald Boose was annulled.
Sobotka died at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital (now the New York Medical College) after a brief illness in 1967 in New York City, aged 41.
External links.
- Ruth Sobotka Designs, 1943-1966 and undated,
Ruth Sobotka
Ruth A. Sobotka (September 4, 1925 – June 17, 1967) was an Austrian-born American dancer, costume designer, art director, painter, and actress.
Life and career.
The daughter and only child of Austrian architect and interior designer, Walter Sobotka (1888–1972) and Viennese actress, Gisela Schönau, Ruth Sobotka immigrated to the United States from Vienna with her parents in 1938. She studied set design at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After