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Rags Ragland
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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…
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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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1946
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie Fishface
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1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Movie Albert Weever
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1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie Self
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1945
Anchors Aweigh
Movie Police Sergeant
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1944
The Canterville Ghost
Movie Big Harry Waters
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1944
Meet the People
Movie Mr. Smith
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1944
3 Men in White
Movie Hobart Genet
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1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
Movie Chester Conway
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1943
Girl Crazy
Movie 'Rags'
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1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie Charlie / Dauphin
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1942
Whistling in Dixie
Movie Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
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1942
Panama Hattie
Movie Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
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1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
Movie Charlie
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1942
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Movie Louie
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1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie Ears Cofflin
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1942
Sunday Punch
Movie 'Killer' Connolly
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1942
Born to Sing
Movie 'Grunt'
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1941
Whistling in the Dark
Movie Sylvester
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1941
Ringside Maisie
Movie Vic
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1938
Hats and Dogs
Movie Rags
