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Rags Ragland

Aug 23, 1905 - Aug 20, 1946 (40 years old) in 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 (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)

Known For

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Anchors Aweigh
Police Sergeant
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Born to Sing
'Grunt'
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Charlie / Dauphin
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The Canterville Ghost
Big Harry Waters
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Self
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
Albert Weever
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Girl Crazy
'Rags'
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Panama Hattie
Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
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The Hoodlum Saint
Fishface
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Ringside Maisie
Vic

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