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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.
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.
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...
Its main characters were Crusader Rabbit and his sidekick Ragland T. Tiger, or "Rags". The stories were four-minute-long satirical cliffhangers.
Before plunging into show business, comedian Rags Ragland was a truck driver, a boxer (which explains his cauliflower ears), and a movie projectionist. He entered burlesque in his twenties, working his way up to "top banana" at Minsky's.
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