Ruby Keeler
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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, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Footlight Parade (1933)
as Bea
That's Dancing! (1985)
as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
42nd Street (1933)
as Peggy
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
as Polly
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
as Ruby Keeler
Studio Highlights (1934)
as Self
And She Learned About Dames (1934)
as Herself
Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Dames (1934)
as Barbara Hemingway
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
as Goldie
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
Flirtation Walk (1934)
as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
Hollywood Handicap (1938)
as Herself
Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
as Jane
Colleen (1936)
as Colleen Reilly
Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
as Betty Blake
Shipmates Forever (1935)
as June Blackburn
Ruby Keeler (1928)
Actor
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
Six Hits and a Miss (1942)
as Herself
Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
as Kitty Carey
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Phynx (1970)
as Ruby Keeler
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
Calling All Girls (1942)
as Herself (archive footage)