Rags Ragland
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)

Girl Crazy

Du Barry Was a Lady

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Her Highness and the Bellboy

The Canterville Ghost

The Hoodlum Saint

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in Dixie

Whistling in Brooklyn

Meet the People

Born to Sing

Maisie Gets Her Man

Panama Hattie

3 Men in White

Anchors Aweigh

Somewhere I'll Find You

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Sunday Punch
