Wesley Ruggles
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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DirectingBirthday
June 10, 1889Deathday
January 8, 1972Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
75Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USAAlso known as
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The Pawnshop
Ring Client (uncredited)Shanghaied
ShipownerA Night in the Show
Second Man in Balcony Front RowPolice
Jailbird and ThiefTriple Trouble
CrookA Lover's Lost Control
Shoe ClerkA Submarine Pirate
His accomplice / Sub OfficerHer Torpedoed Love
Messenger Inside the HouseBehind the Screen
Actor (uncredited)The Floorwalker
Policeman (uncredited)Gussle's Wayward Path
ClergymanBeatrice Fairfax
#15 WristwatchesA Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
HimselfA Burlesque on the Opera Carmen
Her Painted Hero
Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited)Crew credits
Finders Keepers
DirectorI'm No Angel
DirectorArizona
Director, ProducerNo Man of Her Own
DirectorCimarron
Director, ProducerSomewhere I'll Find You
Director, WriterInvitation to Happiness
Director, ProducerThe Gilded Lily
DirectorYou Belong to Me
Director, ProducerSee Here, Private Hargrove
DirectorCondemned
DirectorToo Many Husbands
Director, ProducerStreet Girl
Director, ProducerThe Bride Comes Home
Director, ProducerRoar of the Dragon
DirectorSing, You Sinners
Director, ProducerValiant Is the Word for Carrie
Director, ProducerTrue Confession
DirectorMississippi
DirectorI Met Him in Paris
Director, ProducerThe Plastic Age
Director, Continuity