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  Ruby Keeler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, (August 25, 1909 - February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer.
When it was Ruby's turn to dance, she asked Julian Mitchell, the dance director for the show, if she could dance on the wooden part so that her taps could be heard.
Ruby Keeler died of cancer in Rancho Mirage, California at the aged either 82 or 83, and was interred in the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange, California.
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 Ruby Keeler - Northern Stars
Ruby's father was an iceman, who delivered ice from home to home; Ruby's mother was a stage mother and when the children started performing, she was responsible for all of the children's costumes and was instrumental in supporting the children in all their show business endeavors.
Ruby's youth and teenage years saw her dancing in theaters, and clubs and she was always a favorite with the audiences.
However Ruby was not forgotten and by the 1950s she began to receive requests for television appearances and special spots in stage shows which she accepted.
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 Biography for Ruby Keeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ruby, who was Irish, and her 24-years-senior husband Al Jolson, who was Jewish, could not conceive a child, so they adopted a baby boy who was half-Irish and half-Jewish.
Ruby began appearing as a singer and dancer in nightclubs when she was 13 years old, after dropping out of the sixth grade at Catholic school.
Suffice it to say that Ruby Keeler owed her Hollywood success, brief as it was, to being in the right place at the right time: at the Warner Bros. studio, when director Busby Berkeley was staging his most inventive and best-remembered musical extravaganzas.
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 ipedia.com: Ruby Keeler Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Keeler,, was an actress, singer, and dancer.
Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Keeler, (August 25, 1910 - February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer.
Ruby Keeler died of cancer in Rancho Mirage, California and was interred in the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange, California.
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 Printer Friendly Version - The old song and dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ruby was a hoofer, and a swell one at that.
Ruby was Ethel Hilda Keeler while she was growing up in Yorkville.
When Ruby starred in Flo Ziegfeld's "Show Girl" on Broadway in 1929, Jolson stood up in the audience on opening night and sang the song, "Liza," to which she was dancing.
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 Ruby Keeler
Most people don't know that Ruby Keeler was a excellent golfer, and both she and Al Jolsen enjoyed their membership at the Hillcrest country club.
Ruby was ready, in 1941 to retire from show business and settle down and add to her family (she already had one adopted son by Al Jolsen, Al Jr.
But that wasn't going to be the last of Ruby, the public who loved her would be graced with her presence only a few more times in her life which are detailed in the book written by one of her dearest friends, Rose Marlowe Trump.
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 Windy City Times
Ruby's father was an iceman, delivering ice door to door, and her mother was determined to have her children in show business.
At sixteen, Ruby found work as a scantilly clad chorine for famous prohibition hostess Texas Guinan who was known to often greet her roomful of patrons by shouting "Hello suckers!".
Ruby was 18, and Al was 28 years her senior when they married in 1928.
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 Film Review: Russians join Battle of Waterloo -- Napoleon still loses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is Miss Keeler of the old Busby Berkeley musical movies of the 30's, the Ruby Keeler of the late, late show.
Ruby Keeler is married to Jack Gilford, a near-millionaire Bible publisher who has been handing out sums of money to three cuties in a strictly platonic way.
Miss Keeler's niece is Susan Watson, the Nanette of the title and her boy friend is Roger Rathburn.
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 Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Ruby Keeler - Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ruby came from an Irish family, whose parents were accomplished Ballroom dancers themselves, with Ruby being the second of three children.
Later when Ruby was 12, her family enrolled her in the 'Jack Blue School of Rhythm and Taps' and by the age of thirteen was a chorus girl in 'The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly' and shortly after a dancer in Texas Guinan's nightclub.
Keeler moved on to motion pictures, with her first big movie role being in 42nd Street.
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Listen to Ruby Keeler's reading of her lines: She's no "method" actress...she sounds as if she has just been handed a script and doing a first reading.
Ruby more than makes up for her lack of acting skill when she leads the company in a rousing tap routine midway through act one that will set your hair on end!
Ruby Keeler makes her stunning comeback in "No, No, Nanette" tapping her way through "I Want To Be Happy" with the precision and style that she has always had.
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 Ruby Keeler --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Keeler starred as a fresh-faced ingenue who would triumphantly emerge from the chorus line to replace an ailing or temperamental star in a string of lavish formulaic Depression-era musicals remembered for the colossal kaleidoscopic dance sequences orchestrated by choreographer-director Busby Berkeley.
The U.S. actress Ruby Dee was the first fl woman to appear in major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Conn. She was born Ruby Ann Wallace on Oct. 27, 1924, in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Harlem.
As one of the first children to integrate the New Orleans schools, Ruby was protected by four armed federal marshals and her mother.
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 Amazon.com: 42nd Street (1933) (1933) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peggy Sawyer is played by Ruby Keeler, who was a wonderful dancer and an acceptable singer, but an enormously untalented actress.
Bebe Daniels is memorable as the leading lady who twists her ankle on opening night and Ruby Keeler, in her movie debut, is the spunky girl plucked from the chorus line to save the show.
Ruby Keeler is similarly arrayed, but in a lush all white dress as she "shuffles off to Buffalo." It's a brilliant film in this regard (pardon the pun); an example how fl & white can sometimes best color.
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 Ruby Keeler - TheBestLinks.com - August 25, Canada, February 28, 1993, ...
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Ruby Keeler, August 25, Canada, February 28, 1993, 1910, Halifax, Nova Scotia...
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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 Ruby Keeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Keeler was sometimes the decorative centerpiece of Berkeley's numbers, such as the jigsaw puzzle of Keeler's face in Dames (1934), assembled to the strains of "I Only Have Eyes For You"
I had that terrible singing voice, and now I can see I wasn't the greatest tap dancer in the world, either," her sincere portrayals of sweet, ingenues trying to get a break touched a chord in audiences during the height of the Depression
Keeler retired from the screen in 1941 and, after occasional TV appearances in the 50s and 60s, made one of the most heralded show business comebacks, charming Broadway in the 1971 revival of the musical No No Nanette
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 Ruby Keeler
If Ruby Keeler hasn’t quite digested their influences, it might just be because it’s an awfully big meal.
But even with mouths full, Ruby’s frantic ode to "Helena Bonham Carter (no relation)" makes for catchy, crunchy listening.
Ruby Keeler plays with The Science Of and Aspera Ad Astra on Sun., Feb. 6, at Silk City, Fifth and Spring Garden Sts., 215-922-8838.
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 Amazon.ca: 42nd Street [IMPORT]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ruby Keeler is simply adorable as Peggy Sawyer, Bebe Daniels is rightly used as the fading star, Warner Baxter, Ned Sparks, and Guy Kibbee make the most of their parts.
Una Merkel is ducky as wisecracking Larraine, and a scene stealing Ginger Rogers is a gem.
A similar film with mostly the same cast, (Ginger, Guy, Ned, Ruby, and Dick Powell, and chorus dancers) and the same famous Busby Berkeley overhead shots, watch Goldiggers of 1933.
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 Donna Lynne Champlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Champlin's high octane performance is a real burst of honest energy ….Champlin manages to give Keeler some humanity as she struggles to stay out of the shadow of her larger than life husband." -The Boston Herald
Burstyn does have strong support, particularly from Donna Lynne Champlin in the role of Ruby Keeler.
"……and exception is Donna Lynne Champlin's Ruby Keeler; she taps up a storm and sings better than the real Keeler ever did." -Herald Tribune, FL
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 Ruby Keeler
A sickly Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) puts his all into what may be his last show, only to face a disaster when leading lady Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) sprains her ankle.
Thank heavens for ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler), who steps in at the last minute.
Actor(s): Warner Baxter - Bebe Daniels - George Brent - Ruby Keeler
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 RUBY KEELER - TICKET SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: PATSY KELLY , IRVING CAESAR
Ticket signed: "Ruby Keeler", "Irving Caesar" and "Every Success/Patsy Kelly", 9x4.
Event at the Museum of the City of New York, Sunday, April 18 (1971), "honoring Ruby Keeler and the cast of No No Nanette".
KELLY won a Tony for her performance in No No Nanette, lyrics by CAESAR, which also starred KEELER.
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 Ruby Keeler Current Month TV Schedule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, George E Stone, Allen Jenkins.
Starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Renee Whitney, Ruth Donnelly.
Starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk.
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 Vincent Youmans, Ruby Keeler, Jack Gilford: No, No, Nanette - The New 1925 Musical (1971 Broadway Revival Cast) - Musik ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vincent Youmans, Ruby Keeler, Jack Gilford: No, No, Nanette - The New 1925 Musical (1971 Broadway Revival Cast)
In this regard, No, No, Nanette was the blueprint for such modern revivals as Guys & Dolls or How to Succeed in Business, which presented social mores once considered somewhat seriously with tongue now planted firmly in cheek.
The show got great marquee value from tap dancing star Ruby Keeler appearing in her first Broadway show since 1940, not to mention the four Tony Awards it scored that year; the revival ended up running twice as long as the 1925 original.
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 DigiGuide : Ruby Keeler
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 Alibris: Tony Keeler
Description: Thomas, Tony & Jim Taylor w/Busby Berkeley & foreword by Ruby Keeler., New York Graphic Society, nd (1973), c1973, 2nd printing, cloth, vg w/chipped & price clipped dj, 192 pp w/index, B & W photographic illus., 4to, 'The life and works of the Wizard of H. read more
by Thomas, Tony And Jim Terry With Busby Berkeley & Ruby Keeler.
Fine in Near Fine DJ with slight wear at spine end.
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 MTV.com - Movies - Ruby Keeler
Canadian Keeler was the prototypical '30s musical-comedy star.
She got her start on Broadway and became famous when she married the much older Al Jolson.
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 Ruby Keeler: A Photographic Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nancy Marlow-Trump, a film starlet, is now a literary star.
This photo biography of Ruby Keeler is objectively but lovingly told and transports the reader into an era when both stage and films were less complicated and more entertaining than they are today.
Thoroughly researched and documented, it's a pity that Ruby Keeler didn't have the opportunity to read it herself.
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 Amazon.com: 42nd Street (Snap Case): DVD: Warner Baxter,Bebe Daniels,George Brent,Ruby Keeler,Guy Kibbee,Una ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the night before the prmiere, Dorothy Brock breaks her ankle, and one of the chorus girls, Peggey Sawyer tries to take over her part.
Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, See more
Almost all of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
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