Actor
Ruby Keeler
August 25, 1910 · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
Often works with
Dick Powell
7 titles together
42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade
Joan Blondell
5 titles together
Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade, Dames
Guy Kibbee
4 titles together
42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade
Hugh Herbert
4 titles together
Footlight Parade, Dames, Colleen
Allen Jenkins
3 titles together
42nd Street, Ready, Willing and Able, A Day at Santa Anita
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
3 titles together
Gold Diggers of 1933, Go Into Your Dance, A Day at Santa Anita
Full filmography · 18
Beverly Hills Brats
as Goldie
1989
That's Dancing!
as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
19856.9
The Phynx
as Ruby Keeler
1970
Sweetheart of the Campus
as Betty Blake
1941
Mother Carey's Chickens
as Kitty Carey
1938
A Day at Santa Anita
as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
1937
Ready, Willing and Able
as Jane
1937
Colleen
as Colleen Reilly
1936
Shipmates Forever
as June Blackburn
1935
Go Into Your Dance
as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
1935
Flirtation Walk
as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
1934
Dames
as Barbara Hemingway
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