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Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler

Born: 1910-08-25 • 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.

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Filmography
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood poster
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025 • Self (archive footage)
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star poster
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
2007 • Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage poster
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 • Self (archive footage)
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound poster
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006 • Self (archive footage)
Beverly Hills Brats poster
Beverly Hills Brats
1989 • Goldie
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood poster
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 • Self
That's Dancing! poster
That's Dancing!
1985 • From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? poster
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 • Self (archive footage)
The Phynx poster
The Phynx
1970 • Ruby Keeler
Six Hits and a Miss poster
Six Hits and a Miss
1942 • Herself
No Image
Calling All Girls
1942 • Herself (archive footage)
Sweetheart of the Campus poster
Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 • Betty Blake
Mother Carey's Chickens poster
Mother Carey's Chickens
1938 • Kitty Carey
Hollywood Handicap poster
Hollywood Handicap
1938 • Herself
A Day at Santa Anita poster
A Day at Santa Anita
1937 • Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
Ready, Willing and Able poster
Ready, Willing and Able
1937 • Jane
Colleen poster
Colleen
1936 • Colleen Reilly
Shipmates Forever poster
Shipmates Forever
1935 • June Blackburn
Go Into Your Dance poster
Go Into Your Dance
1935 • Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
Flirtation Walk poster
Flirtation Walk
1934 • Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
Dames poster
Dames
1934 • Barbara Hemingway
No Image
Studio Highlights
1934 • Self
And She Learned About Dames poster
And She Learned About Dames
1934 • Herself
Footlight Parade poster
Footlight Parade
1933 • Bea Thorn
Gold Diggers of 1933 poster
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 • Polly
42nd Street poster
42nd Street
1933 • Peggy
Show Girl in Hollywood poster
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 • Ruby Keeler