Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler ( born August 25, 1909 in Halifax, Canada, † 28 February 1993 in Rancho Mirage, California; actually Ethel Hilda Keeler ) was an American actress and dancer.

Life

With three years she moved with her family to New York, where Ruby Keeler started early to take dance lessons. Already at 13, she got a job as a chorus girl in a production of George M. Cohan. The next year, she appeared in numerous revues on Broadway and made 1927 his breakthrough as a solo star, having appeared in the revues Bye Bye Bonnie and The Sidewalks of New York. Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a bigger role in the Eddie Cantor Show Whoopee on, but Ruby Keeler left the show before the premiere to marry Al Jolson. In 1929 she follow her husband to Hollywood.

She signed a contract with Warner Brothers and became a popular musical star. However, most of their films are known to be due to the performances of Ruby Keeler rather by the elaborate production numbers by Busby Berkeley. This usually played the somewhat naive young hopefuls from the countryside who in the premiere night creates an accident of the established stars of their breakthrough. Mostly she was going to see on the side of Dick Powell. While most critics complained about their lack of talent as a singer, dancer and actress, but the audience took a liking to her personality. 1937 Ruby Keeler left out of solidarity with her husband their existing contract and took over the role in Mother Carey 's Chicken at RKO after Katharine Hepburn had denied their involvement. After Keeler and Jolson had separated in 1941, Ruby Keeler largely withdrew from public life. Only in 1970, she returned as a star in the revival of No, No, Nanette at the Broadway back.

She was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmography (selection)

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