Ruby Keeler

Actor

Born: August 25, 1910
Died: February 28, 1993 (age 82)
From: 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…

Filmography (27)

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