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Rags Ragland

Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing the English language, had as his sole movie employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)


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Born:
Aug 23, 1905 In Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
19
First Appeared:
In the movie Ringside Maisie 1941-08-01
Latest Project:
Movie The Hoodlum Saint 1946-04-04
Known For
Poster of Girl Crazy
Poster of Somewhere I'll Find You
Poster of The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Poster of Maisie Gets Her Man
Filmography
Movie The Hoodlum Saint Fishface 1946-04-04
Movie Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood Himself 1945-10-05
Movie Anchors Aweigh Police Sergeant 1945-08-13
Movie Her Highness and the Bellboy Albert Weever 1945-11-11
Movie 3 Men in White Hobart Genet 1944-05-25
Movie Meet the People Mr. Smith 1944-06-01
Movie The Canterville Ghost Big Harry Waters 1944-07-20
Movie Girl Crazy 'Rags' 1943-11-26
Movie Du Barry was a Lady Charlie / Dauphin 1943-08-13
Movie Whistling in Brooklyn Chester Conway 1943-12-01
Movie Maisie Gets Her Man Ears Cofflin 1942-06-01
Movie Born to Sing 'Grunt' 1942-02-18
Movie Sunday Punch 'Killer' Connolly 1942-05-08
Movie The War Against Mrs. Hadley Louie 1942-08-07
Movie Somewhere I'll Find You Charlie 1942-08-27
Movie Whistling in Dixie Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway 1942-12-31
Movie Panama Hattie Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) 1942-09-30
Movie Ringside Maisie Vic 1941-08-01
Movie Whistling in the Dark Sylvester 1941-08-08