Ruby Keeler - A Pro-Eisenhower Babe Who Worked Hard For Success In Tougher Times Than Now

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 25th August, 2023, Nova Scotia time | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Ruby Keeler was born into a catholic family in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on this date in 1909.

She worked hard in tough times: "Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning."

She supported Eisenhower's campaign in 1952.

In the movie “Dames”, Ruby Keeler’s character Barbara Hemingway said, “I’m free, white, and 21. I love to dance AND I’m going to dance.”

Those were different times.

“Al Jolson was my first husband.” she once said, “I think Al sensed that it wasn’t easy for me being married to an American institution ..... ”

[toddausauras]

Enjoy her old films. Especially Gold Diggers of 1933.

[Conan the Librarian]

I saw her in a revival of “No, No, Nanette” with Don Ameche. Busby Berkeley did the choreography.

It was quite fun to watch. I just wish I had been old enough to understand just how special it was. I was 13 or 14 at the time.

Ruby Keeler could just dance!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

She was a heck of a golfer.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes. I enjoy all her films. I love the "Shanghai Lil" scene with James Cagney in "Footlight Parade".

[Fiji Hill]

I Only Have Eyes for You--The Warner/Vitaphone Orchestra & Chorus (1934)

Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell are featured in this production number ("music video" in today's lingo) from the movie 'Dames." Unfortunately, it's not the entire number, which features a man is so focused on his girl that he is unaware of his surroundings. The tune was a big hit in 1934 for "Eddie Jackson" (Freddy Martin) and others.

[Fiji Hill]

I met her in Hollywood in 1980.

[Fiji Hill]

I saw her in a revival of “No, No, Nannette” with Don Ameche. Busby Berkeley did the choreography.

"No, No, Nannette" is one of my favorite musicals. I wish I could have seen that one, with Berkeley's choreography.

[toddausauras]

Definitely...and Cagney is so great in it. “Go into Your Dance” is another good one with Jolson.

[Neanderthal]

"Enjoy her old films. Especially Gold Diggers of 1933."

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She's my favorite. America's Sweetheart. 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade were especially great.

Her Shanghai Lil in Footlight Parade was a brilliant reference to Marlene Dietrich's Shanghai Lily in Shanghai Express, which came out just one year earlier.

[Ozguy1945]

“I met her in Hollywood in 1980.”

What was she like?

[toddausauras]

Agree. Dick Powell is great with her too.

[Norski]

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Pretty lady.

[steve8714]

My number 1 or two movie of. all. Time.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[Dr. Ursus]

One of my favorite_ Ginger Rogers singing in pig Latin,and the great forgotten man sequence

[Fiji Hill]

She was a very good raconteuse and told her audience stories about her life, her movies, and her work with Busby Berkeley, which she said was a pleasant experience.