The best Ruby Keeler’s romance movies

Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler

25/08/1910- 28/02/1993
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42nd Street

42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade
7.5/10
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mother Carey's Chickens
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/07/1938
  • Character: Kitty Carey
Fay Bainter stars in this 1938 film, based on the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, about a financially-strapped mother and her children who relocate from the city to a small rural town. It was remade by Walt Disney in 1963 as "Summer Magic".

Dames

Dames
7/10
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able
5.8/10
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Colleen

Colleen
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/03/1936
  • Character: Colleen Reilly
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Sweetheart of the Campus

Sweetheart of the Campus
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/06/1941
  • Character: Betty Blake
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

Flirtation Walk

Flirtation Walk
5.6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 01/12/1934
  • Character: Kit Fitts
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.

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