Rags Ragland
출생 : 1905-08-23, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
사망 : 1946-08-20
약력
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)
Fishface
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Albert Weever
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Himself
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Police Sergeant
전쟁에서 무공을 세워 특별 휴가를 받은 두 병사의 이야기. 여자에 관해서는 완전 쑥맥인 클레어런스(프랑크 시나트라)와 그와는 정반대의 성향인 조셉(진 켈리). 조는 여자 친구를 만나러 가지만 달리 할게 없는 클레어렌스는 그를 졸졸 따라 다닌다. 여자 사귀는 방법을 묻기도 하고... 그러던 중 경찰에게 끌려가는 어린아이를 발견하는데 그 아이는 해병이 너무 좋아 군에 입대를 하고 조르고 겨우 달래어 집에 데려다 주다가 보호자인 이모를 만나게 된다. 그 아이의 이모는 배우 지망생이었고 클레어렌스는 그녀, 수잔을 좋아하게 된다. 조는 클레어런스와 수잔을 맺어주려 노력하지만 그녀는 조를 좋아한다. 어느덧 수잔에게 이끌리는 조, 하지만 클레어런스를 생각하고 선뜻 행동으로 옮기지 못한다.
Big Harry Waters
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
Mr. Smith
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
Hobart Genet
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
Chester Conway
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
'Rags'
바람둥이 대니는 서부의 외딴 대학교에 가게 된다. 그런데 학생 수가 점점 줄어 학교가 폐교 위기에 놓이자 대니는 여자 친구들과 함께 쇼를 기획하고 학교를 살리고자 한다.
Charlie / Dauphin
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Charlie
Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II.
Louie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Ears Cofflin
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
'Killer' Connolly
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
'Grunt'
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
Sylvester
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
Vic
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
