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Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director. 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. 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. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture. Although Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant , College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona). 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. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953. Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Ruggles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1889-06-10
- event Death Date 1972-01-08
- school Known for: Directing
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- info Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Wesley Ruggles
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The Pawnshop
1916-10-02
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Shanghaied
1915-10-04
6.2
A Night in the Show
1915-11-20
6.3
Police
1916-05-27
4.8
Triple Trouble
1918-08-11
5.8
Her Painted Hero
1915-11-20
5.5
A Lover's Lost Control
1915-08-02
4.9
A Submarine Pirate
1915-12-26
5
Her Torpedoed Love
1917-05-13
6.5
Behind the Screen
1916-11-13
6.4
The Floorwalker
1916-05-15
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Caught in a Park
1915-02-06
5
Gussle's Wayward Path
1915-04-09
5
Beatrice Fairfax
1916-08-07
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Gussle Rivals Jonah
1915-04-25
6
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920-08-15
10
A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen
1951-03-01
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Sooner or Later
1920-02-01
10
Finders Keepers
1928-02-18
10
I'm No Angel
1933-10-06
10
Arizona
1940-12-25
10
No Man of Her Own
1932-12-30
10
Cimarron
1931-01-26
10
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942-08-27
10
Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
10
Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
10
The Gilded Lily
1935-01-25
10
The Desperate Hero
1920-06-07
10
You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
10
You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
10
Condemned!
1929-11-03
10
Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
10
Street Girl
1929-08-21
10
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944-03-18
10
The Bride Comes Home
1935-12-25
10
True Confession
1937-12-24
10
Sing, You Sinners
1938-09-02
10
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936-10-06
10
I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
10
Piccadilly Jim
1919-11-01
10
Hooked at the Altar
1926-10-03
10
The Relay
1927-01-30
10
Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
10
The Plastic Age
1925-12-15
10
Bolero
1934-02-23
10
College Humor
1933-07-05
10
The Last Lap
1926-12-20
10
The Cinder Path
1927-02-14
10
Shoot the Works
1934-07-18
10
Accent on Youth
1935-08-23
10
Are These Our Children?
1931-11-13
10
Roar of the Dragon
1932-07-08
10
The Age of Innocence
1924-11-10
10
I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
10
A Man of Quality
1926-10-01
10
London Town
1946-09-30
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London Town
1946-09-30
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London Town
1946-09-30
10
Wild Honey
1922-03-06
10
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
1923-03-19
10
Cimarron
1931-01-26
10
The Bride Comes Home
1935-12-25
10
If I Were Queen
1922-10-15
10
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936-10-06
10
The Collegians
1926-11-08
10
Are These Our Children?
1931-11-13
10
The Monkey's Paw
1933-01-13
10
The Sea Bat
1930-07-05
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The Sea Bat
1930-07-05
10
The Leopard Woman
1920-10-18
10
Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
10
Honey
1930-03-29
10
Around the Bases
1927-01-03
10
Breaking Records
1927-03-14
10
The Fourflusher
1928-01-08
10
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942-08-27
10
Girl Overboard
1929-07-28
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A Broadway Lady
1925-11-15
10
Flashing Oars
1927-02-28
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The Heart Raider
1923-06-10
10
Love
1920-12-05
10
The Incredible World of James Bond
1965-11-26
10
Arizona
1940-12-25
10
The Plastic Age
1925-12-15
10
Uncharted Seas
1921-04-25
10
Street Girl
1929-08-21
10
Sing, You Sinners
1938-09-02
10
Slippy McGee
1923-06-11
10
Scandal
1929-04-27
10
Beware of Widows
1927-05-23
10
Outcast
1917-09-10
10
Mississippi
1935-03-22
10
The Cross Country Run
1929-01-21