Actor
· Acting
Ruby Keeler
Born 1910-08-25
Died 1993-02-28
📍 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 28
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
as Self (archive footage)
2007
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Beverly Hills Brats
as Goldie
1989
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
That's Dancing!
as From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
1985
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
The Phynx
as Ruby Keeler
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Six Hits and a Miss
as Herself
1942
Sweetheart of the Campus
as Betty Blake
1941
Mother Carey's Chickens
as Kitty Carey
1938
Hollywood Handicap
as Herself
1938
A Day at Santa Anita
as Ruby Keeler (uncredited)
1937
Ready, Willing and Able
as Jane
1937
Colleen
as Colleen Reilly
1936
Shipmates Forever
as June Blackburn
1935
Go Into Your Dance
as Dorothy 'Dot' Wayne
1935
Flirtation Walk
as Kathleen "Kit" Fitts
1934
Dames
as Barbara Hemingway
1934
And She Learned About Dames
as Herself
1934
Footlight Parade
as Bea Thorn
1933
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Polly
1933
42nd Street
as Peggy
1933
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Ruby Keeler
1930