Rags Ragland
Date of birth: 1905-08-23
Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
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 Garland and Gene Kelly. Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
Movie Credits
Girl Crazy
1943-11-26
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943-08-13
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945-10-05
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945-11-11
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls i
The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage wh
The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m
Whistling in the Dark
1941-08-08
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou
Whistling in Dixie
1942-12-31
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to h
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943-12-01
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himsel
Meet the People
1944-06-01
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to th
Born to Sing
1942-02-18
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real compos
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942-06-01
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a b
Panama Hattie
1942-09-30
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
3 Men in White
1944-05-25
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves
Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942-08-27
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942-08-07
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the
Sunday Punch
1942-05-08
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxer
Ringside Maisie
1941-08-01
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confide
Hats and Dogs
1938-12-31