Ruby Keeler
August 25, 1910 (114 years old) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, (August 25, 1910 – February 28, 1993) was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street (1933). From 1928 to 1940, she was married to legendary singer Al Jolson. She retired from show business in the 1940s but made a widely publicized comeback on Broadway in 1971. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruby Keeler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2007 · Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound as Self (archive footage)
- 1989 · Beverly Hills Brats as Goldie
- 1985 · That's Dancing! as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
- 1975 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1970 · The Phynx as Ruby Keeler
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1963 · The Greatest Show on Earth as
- 1963 · Vacation Playhouse as Ruby
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1942 · Six Hits and a Miss as Herself
- 1942 · Calling All Girls as Herself (archive footage)
- 1941 · Sweetheart of the Campus as Betty Blake
- 1938 · Mother Carey's Chickens as Kitty Carey
- 1938 · Hollywood Handicap as Herself
- 1937 · A Day at Santa Anita as Ruby Keeler
- 1937 · Ready, Willing and Able as Jane
- 1936 · Colleen as Colleen Reilly
- 1935 · Shipmates Forever as June Blackburn
- 1935 · Go Into Your Dance as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
- 1934 · Flirtation Walk as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
- 1934 · Dames as Barbara Hemingway
- 1934 · Studio Highlights as Self
- 1934 · And She Learned About Dames as Herself
- 1933 · Footlight Parade as Bea Thorn
- 1933 · Gold Diggers of 1933 as Polly Parker
- 1933 · 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer
- 1930 · Show Girl in Hollywood as Ruby Keeler
- Future · Ruby Keeler as Self