Rags Ragland
Actor · 1905 – 1946 · 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)
Movies20
Movie6.8MusicComedyTwo sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · 169 votes
Movie6.5ComedyFantasyHat 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 Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943 · 18 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceYoung 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 boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Ringside Maisie
1941 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyWhen 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.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · 30 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceIn 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 to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · 11 votes
Movie6.9ComedyFantasyThe descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · 47 votes
Movie5.2DramaWealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942 · 8 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaGillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
3 Men in White
1944 · 12 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceJournalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · 14 votes
Movie5.9ComedyMysteryRadio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Whistling in the Dark
1941 · 15 votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceRich 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 where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Girl Crazy
1943 · 25 votes
Movie5.7ComedySailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Panama Hattie
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaStruggling 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 in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · 3 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceA idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
Meet the People
1944 · 6 votes
Movie5.5DramaMusicA 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. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · 7 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeRadio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943 · 4 votes
Movie5.4CrimeActionA 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.
Born to Sing
1942 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaMa Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Sunday Punch
1942 · 4 votes
MovieComedyRags Ragland and Joey Faye adapted their famous stage routines for the film, notably performing the signature Pascooniak (later known as Floogle Street) hat company sketch. A dog destroys a man's hat. The destruction forces a comedic journey to track down the specific hat company.
Hats and Dogs
1938
Movie6.2ComedyMysteryRadio 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 mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Whistling in Dixie
1942 · 4 votes