1941Nominee
Best Performance
Ringside Maisie
Rags Ragland
Actor
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
August 23, 1905
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)
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1945Nominee
Best Performance
Anchors Aweigh
1942Nominee
Best Performance
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Career Highlights
1942Highlight
Best Performance
Panama Hattie
1945Highlight
Best Performance
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
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Anchors Aweigh
Panama Hattie
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood