
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)

Du Barry Was a Lady
MOVIE • 1943

Anchors Aweigh
MOVIE • 1945

The Hoodlum Saint
MOVIE • 1946

Girl Crazy
MOVIE • 1943

Ringside Maisie
MOVIE • 1941

Her Highness and the Bellboy
MOVIE • 1945

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
MOVIE • 1945

The War Against Mrs. Hadley
MOVIE • 1942

Somewhere I'll Find You
MOVIE • 1942

Born to Sing
MOVIE • 1942

3 Men in White
MOVIE • 1944

The Canterville Ghost
MOVIE • 1944

Panama Hattie
MOVIE • 1942

Sunday Punch
MOVIE • 1942

Maisie Gets Her Man
MOVIE • 1942

Whistling in the Dark
MOVIE • 1941

Meet the People
MOVIE • 1944

Whistling in Brooklyn
MOVIE • 1943