Rags Ragland Biography
Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing the English language, had as his sole movie employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
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Rags Ragland Quotes
Understanding Women's Emotions in Relationships
Princess Veronica:
Don't you know? A woman only gets really mad at a man if he doesn't want to kiss her.
Albert Weever:
Is that a fact? Gee, I'm glad to know that!
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Identity and Perception in Unexpected Encounters
Princess Veronica:
Hi, babe!
Albert Weever:
Look, lady, I didn't know you was a Princess. I thought you was a woman!
Princess Veronica:
I'm both, Albert.
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