Ruby Keeler

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1910-08-25 (83 years old)

Deathday

1993-02-28

Place of Birth

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ruby Keeler

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.​

Acting

1933

42nd Street

as Peggy

1933

Footlight Parade

as Bea Thorn

1934

Dames

as Barbara Hemingway

1970

The Phynx

as Ruby Keeler

1938

1934

Flirtation Walk

as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts

1936

Colleen

as Colleen Reilly

1935

Shipmates Forever

as June Blackburn

1935

Go Into Your Dance

as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne

1938

2006

1930

1941

1942

Calling All Girls

as Herself (archive footage)

2007

Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star

as Self (archive footage)

1937

A Day at Santa Anita

as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1989

1942

1985

That's Dancing!

as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)

2025

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

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