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Ruby Keeler
🎭 Acting

Ruby Keeler

August 25, 1910 (age 82)
February 28, 1993
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Female
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruby Keeler,…

Movies

27 credits
Gold Diggers of 1933 Movie
★ 7.2
Comedy, Drama
1933 Comedy, Drama
42nd Street
★ 6.9
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42nd Street
1933 as Peggy
Footlight Parade
★ 6.8
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Footlight Parade
1933 as Bea Thorn
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
★ 6.0
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 as Self
That's Dancing!
★ 6.9
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That's Dancing!
1985 as From '42nd Street' and…
Dames
★ 6.5
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Dames
1934 as Barbara Hemingway
Mother Carey's Chickens
★ 6.0
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Mother Carey's Chickens
1938 as Kitty Carey
The Phynx
★ 3.7
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The Phynx
1970 as Ruby Keeler
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
★ 6.3
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 as Self (archive footage)
Ready, Willing and Able
★ 5.4
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Ready, Willing and Able
1937 as Jane
Shipmates Forever
★ 6.6
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Shipmates Forever
1935 as June Blackburn
Beverly Hills Brats
★ 5.0
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Beverly Hills Brats
1989 as Goldie
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
★ 6.5
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Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025 as Self (archive footage)
Go Into Your Dance
★ 7.2
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Go Into Your Dance
1935 as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
Colleen
★ 5.8
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Colleen
1936 as Colleen Reilly
Studio Highlights
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Studio Highlights
1934 as Self
Flirtation Walk
★ 5.7
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Flirtation Walk
1934 as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
★ 6.0
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Handicap
★ 4.9
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Hollywood Handicap
1938 as Herself
Calling All Girls
★ 7.0
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Calling All Girls
1942 as Herself (archive footage)
Show Girl in Hollywood
★ 5.8
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Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 as Ruby Keeler
Six Hits and a Miss
★ 6.0
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Six Hits and a Miss
1942 as Herself
Sweetheart of the Campus
★ 5.8
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Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 as Betty Blake
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
★ 4.9
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006 as Self (archive footage)
A Day at Santa Anita
★ 6.0
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A Day at Santa Anita
1937 as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
And She Learned About Dames
★ 7.5
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And She Learned About Dames
1934 as Herself
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
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Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
2007 as Self (archive footage)

TV Shows

5 credits
Tony Awards TV
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Tony Awards
1956 as Self - Performer
The Dick Cavett Show TV
★ 6.8
PRO
Talk
The Ed Sullivan Show TV
★ 6.8
Comedy, Talk
1948 Comedy, Talk
The Greatest Show on Earth TV
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
Vacation Playhouse TV
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Vacation Playhouse
1963 as Ruby
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