Rags Ragland
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 s...
Also Known As
John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
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Rags Ragland's Movies
Anchors Aweigh
13 Aug 1945
The Canterville Ghost
20 Jul 1944
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
05 Oct 1945
Girl Crazy
26 Nov 1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
13 Aug 1943
Whistling in the Dark
08 Aug 1941
Somewhere I'll Find You
27 Aug 1942
3 Men in White
25 May 1944
Her Highness and the Bellboy
11 Nov 1945
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
07 Aug 1942
The Hoodlum Saint
04 Apr 1946
Meet the People
01 Jun 1944
Born to Sing
18 Feb 1942
Ringside Maisie
01 Aug 1941
Whistling in Dixie
31 Dec 1942
Whistling in Brooklyn
01 Dec 1943
Sunday Punch
08 May 1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
01 Jun 1942
Panama Hattie
30 Sept 1942
Hats and Dogs
31 Dec 1938