Ruby Keeler
Born: 1910-08-25 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1993-02-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound as Self (archive footage)
- 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
1989
- Beverly Hills Brats as Goldie
1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1985
- That's Dancing! as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1970
- The Phynx as Ruby Keeler
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1963
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Performer
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1942
- Calling All Girls as Herself (archive footage)
- Six Hits and a Miss as Herself
1941
- Sweetheart of the Campus as Betty Blake
1938
- Hollywood Handicap as Herself
- Mother Carey's Chickens as Kitty Carey
1937
- Ready, Willing and Able as Jane
- A Day at Santa Anita as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
1936
- Colleen as Colleen Reilly
1935
- Shipmates Forever as June Blackburn
- Go Into Your Dance as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
1934
- Dames as Barbara Hemingway
- Flirtation Walk as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
- Studio Highlights as Self
- And She Learned About Dames as Herself
1933
- Gold Diggers of 1933 as Polly
- 42nd Street as Peggy
- Footlight Parade as Bea Thorn
1930
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Ruby Keeler