Rags Ragland

Rags Ragland

Acting
20 Movies

Born

August 23, 1905

Died

August 20, 1946

Place of Birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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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 employ…

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