Rags Ragland
August 23, 1905 · 121 years old
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…
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6 titles
Anchors Aweigh
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Girl Crazy
A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
Du Barry Was a Lady
A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerf...
Panama Hattie
Sailors suspicious of spies and a singer who is in love enjoy life in the Canal Zone.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Vaudeville performer Maisie Ravier seeks new job, meets aspiring comedian Hap Hixby, joins his act despite his romantic entanglement with Elsie McIntyre. Challenges arise from Hap's abilities, business venture, and love triangle.