Ray Bolger

b. Raymond Wallace Bolger, 10 January 1904, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 15 January 1987, LA, California, USA. An eccentric, rubber-legged dancer with a method and picture that needed to be noticed to be thought. He began like a comedian in 1922 using the Bob Ott Musical Repertory Organization and four years later on gained a little part inside a Broadway display known as The Merry Whirl. Following a spell in vaudeville, he came back to Broadway in the past due 20s and 30s in displays such as Mind Up, George White colored’s Scandals, Existence Starts At 8:40, and ON YOUR OWN Toes (1936). Bolger shot to stardom within the second option display where he launched the beautiful ‘There’s A LITTLE Resort’, and performed an amusing eccentric dance in Richard Rodgers’ popular ‘Slaughter On Tenth Avenue’ ballet. After departing the display he relocated to Hollywood and made an appearance in THE FANTASTIC Ziegfeld, Rosalie, Sweethearts, and something of the very most unforgettable films ever, The Wizard Of Oz (1939), where he performed the Scarecrow searching for a mind. After time for NY for the short-lived musical Maintain Off The Lawn (1940), he produced yet another film, Sunny (1941), before departing for the South Pacific where he amused troops using the USO during Globe Battle II. He was back again on Broadway in 1942 for By Jupiter, and the revue Three TO CREATE Ready, where he halted the show frequently with the wonderful ‘That Aged Soft Footwear’, filled with straw head wear and cane. Frank Loesser’s Where’s Charley? arrived in 1948 and offered Bolger his ideal role; he released the gentle ‘Once DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH Amy’, and it eventually became his personal tune. Through the 40s and 50s he produced several more movies including Stage Door Canteen, Four Jacks PLUS A Jill, The Harvey Women, SEARCH FOR The Silver Coating, Where’s Charley?, and Apr In Paris. In 1962 and 1969 he made an appearance in two even more stage musicals, All American and Arrive Summer, but mainly through the 60s and 70s he blended feature films such as for example Babes In Toyland, The Daydreamer, The Runner Stumbles, and ME AND YOU Kid, with tv films that included The Entertainer, The Captains AS WELL AS THE Kings, in support of Heaven Knows. Within the MGM extravaganza That’s Entertainment!, he appeared back affectionately on the career that got spanned more than half a hundred years. Three years afterwards he passed away of tumor at age 83.