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)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.626 |
Birthday | 1905-08-23 |
Place of Birth | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
Also Known As | John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland, |
1943
Girl Crazy
5.6/20
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West w...
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Girl Crazy
1943
Du Barry was a Lady
6.1/14
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
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Du Barry was a Lady
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
5.7/25
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy
6.3/9
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes...
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
1944
The Canterville Ghost
6.6/39
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
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The Canterville Ghost
1946
The Hoodlum Saint
5.2/6
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....
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The Hoodlum Saint
1941
Whistling in the Dark
5.8/14
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's h...
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Whistling in the Dark
1942
Whistling in Dixie
5/3
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a m...
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Whistling in Dixie
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
6.3/3
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
1944
Meet the People
5/4
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some importan...
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Meet the People
1942
Born to Sing
5/4
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Born to Sing
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
6.5/2
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...
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Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Panama Hattie
4/2
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
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Panama Hattie
1944
3 Men in White
6/11
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competi...
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3 Men in White
1945
Anchors Aweigh
6.8/152
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl...
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Anchors Aweigh
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
5.9/12
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
4.8/5
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishnes...
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942
Sunday Punch
5/3
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes...
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Sunday Punch
1941
Ringside Maisie
7/3
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxi...
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