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Rags Ragland (born John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland, August 23, 1905 – August 20, 1946) was an American comedian and character actor.
Rags Ragland (1905-1946) was a versatile performer who appeared in 21 films, mostly for MGM, as a sailor, a masseur, a ghost and more. He also sang in musicals like Girl Crazy and Du Barry Was a Lady, and was a boxer and a burlesque comedian before Hollywood.
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Nov 22, 2015 · Learn about Rags Ragland, a comedian who starred in burlesque and MGM films. Discover his roles, his death and his legacy in Hollywood.
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.
Aug 29, 2014 · In 1941 Hollywood gossip columnist of Paul Harrison spoke with a comedian named Rags Ragland who claimed that his girlfriend, Suzanne Ridgeway, used a version of the quip. However, it was possible that Ragland was simply providing entertaining fodder for Harrison’s newspaper readers by recycling an old joke: 7 8
Panama Hattie (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I've Still Got My Health Opening scene with the chorus then Ann Sothern in the title role, with a Cole Porter tune Ethel Merman sang in the Broadway production, Red Skelton, Rags Ragland and Ben Blue her admiring sailors, in MGM’s Panama Hattie, 1942.
Rags Ragland was a burlesque comedian and Broadway actor who played the sailor in Panama Hattie (1942). He died of uremic poisoning and was buried with Frank Sinatra singing at his funeral.
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