Wesley Ruggles

Film Director

Male

Born Jun 11, 1889

Hometown United States

Died Jan 8, 1972

Death Place United States

Wesley Ruggles was an American film director.

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Marcelle Rogez

Married 1940 - 1972
Adrienne Ames
Dated 1939
Toby Wing
Dated 1937
Arline Judge
Married 1931 - 1937
Kathryn Crawford
Dated 1929

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Dvd Extra: Sony's Mod Madman, Madwoman, Musical Remakes New York Post (Blog)
Google News - Jun 21, 2011

"Three for the Show'' (1955), filmed in handsome Technicolor and CinemaScope, is another musical remake, in this case of Wesley Ruggles' 1940 adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's "Too Many Husband'' (1940) which had starred Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray
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Dvds; Just Like The Ones You Used To Know
NYTimes - Dec 26, 2010

BING CROSBY died in 1977, but that can seem hard to believe during the holiday season. This great singer -- one of the principal architects of American pop and very likely the most successful entertainer of the 20th century -- lives on during the four weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Crooning ''White Christmas,''''Jingle Bells'' or ''Silent
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Dvds; Nutty Professor In Prime Time
NYTimes - Nov 29, 2009

The Jerry Lewis Show From his first live television appearances with Dean Martin on NBC's ''Colgate Comedy Hour'' in the early 1950s through his annual Labor Day muscular dystrophy telethons, television has played a crucial role in the life and art of Jerry Lewis. If his movies -- in particular those he has directed as well as starred in -- are his
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Critic's Notebook; Lombard's Madcap Recipe: Hauteur, Chic And Humor
NYTimes - Aug 21, 1992

THE initial setting in Howard Hawks's "Twentieth Century" (1934) is a bare Broadway stage where Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), a theater impresario deferentially called "sire" by his press agent, is taking the first day of rehearsals of his new production. The show is a ghastly romance set in an antebellum South whose fictional apogee would be
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CHILDHOOD

1889 Birth Born on June 11, 1889.

TWENTIES

1915 26 Years Old He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin.

1917 28 Years Old In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 mostly forgettable films - including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) - before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. … Read More

FIFTIES

1946 57 Years Old His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1972 83 Years Old Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. … Read More

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