Anchors Aweigh
1945
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Personal life. Ragland was born on August 23, 1905, in Louisville, Kentucky, to parents Adam Joseph Ragland and Stella Petty. As a youth, he worked as a truck driver, boxer, and movie projectionist in Kentucky. He was briefly married to Sabina Elizabeth Vanover and they had one child, a son named John Griffin Ragland (1925–1990), before they ...
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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- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Actor and entertainer who worked in burlesque and films. He died in 1946 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.
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 ...
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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