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Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger

Acting
10 Jan 1904
15 Jan 1987
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Ray Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. He was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). This was soon followed by a role opposite Eleanor Powell in Rosalie (1937). His first dancing and singing role was in Sweethearts (1938), where he did the "wooden shoes" number with ...

Also Known As

Raymond Wallace Bulcao, Рэй Болджер, Raymond Wallace Bolger

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