Rags Ragland
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA — Aug 23 1905• Died Aug 20 1946
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Biography
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 Garlan…
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The Hoodlum Saint
Fishface
Du Barry Was a Lady
Charlie / Dauphin
Anchors Aweigh
Police Sergeant
Girl Crazy
'Rags'
Sunday Punch
'Killer' Connolly
Panama Hattie
Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Self
The Canterville Ghost
Big Harry Waters
Born to Sing
'Grunt'
3 Men in White
Hobart Genet
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Louie
Whistling in the Dark
Sylvester
Meet the People
Mr. Smith
Maisie Gets Her Man
Ears Cofflin
Ringside Maisie
Vic
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Albert Weever
Whistling in Brooklyn
Chester Conway
Somewhere I'll Find You
Charlie
Whistling in Dixie
Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Hats and Dogs