Name
Ruby Keeler
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1910-08-25
Deathday
1993-02-28 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Biography
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.
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Known For
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A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-...
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Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover h...
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When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls...
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A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of th...
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Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleaz...
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A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents....
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A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order ...
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A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. Th...
- 1933 42nd Street as Peggy
- 1933 Gold Diggers of 1933 as Polly
- 1933 Footlight Parade as Bea
- 1934 Dames as Barbara Hemingway
- 1970 The Phynx as Ruby Keeler
- 1938 Hollywood Handicap as Herself
- 1934 Flirtation Walk as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
- 1936 Colleen as Colleen Reilly
- 1937 Ready, Willing and Able as Jane
- 1935 Shipmates Forever as June Blackburn
- 1935 Go Into Your Dance as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
- 1938 Mother Carey's Chickens as Kitty Carey
- 2006 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
- 1930 Show Girl in Hollywood as Ruby Keeler
- 1941 Sweetheart of the Campus as Betty Blake
- 2006 Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound as Self (archive footage)
- 1942 Calling All Girls as Herself (archive footage)
- 2007 Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star as Self (archive footage)
- 1937 A Day at Santa Anita as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
- 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1934 And She Learned About Dames as Herself
- 1989 Beverly Hills Brats as Goldie
- 1942 Six Hits and a Miss as Herself
- 1985 That's Dancing! as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
- 1934 Studio Highlights as Self
- 2025 Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
- 1963 The Greatest Show on Earth ( 1 episode )
- 1963 Vacation Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Ruby
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
