Wesley Ruggles

Directing·Jun 10, 1889·Los Angeles, California, USA

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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

Film	Credit
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"1951 · Actor	Actor
London Town1946 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
See Here, Private Hargrove1944 · Director	Director
Slightly Dangerous1943 · Director	Director
Somewhere I'll Find You1942 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
You Belong to Me1941 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Arizona1940 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Too Many Husbands1940 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Invitation to Happiness1939 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Sing, You Sinners1938 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
True Confession1937 · Director	Director
I Met Him in Paris1937 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie1936 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Bride Comes Home1935 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Accent on Youth1935 · Director	Director
The Gilded Lily1935 · Director	Director
Shoot the Works1934 · Director	Director
Bolero1934 · Director	Director
I'm No Angel1933 · Director	Director
College Humor1933 · Director	Director
The Monkey's Paw1933 · Director	Director
No Man of Her Own1932 · Director	Director
Roar of the Dragon1932 · Director	Director
Are These Our Children?1931 · Director	Director
Cimarron1931 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Sea Bat1930 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Honey1930 · Director	Director
Condemned!1929 · Director	Director
Street Girl1929 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Girl Overboard1929 · Director	Director
Scandal1929 · Director	Director
The Cross Country Run1929 · Director	Director
Finders Keepers1928 · Director	Director
TThe Fourflusher1928 · Director	Director
Silk Stockings1927 · Director	Director
Beware of Widows1927 · Director	Director
BBreaking Records1927 · Director	Director
Flashing Oars1927 · Director	Director
The Cinder Path1927 · Director	Director
The Relay1927 · Director	Director
AAround the Bases1927 · Director	Director
TThe Last Lap1926 · Director	Director
The Collegians1926 · Director	Director
Hooked at the Altar1926 · Director	Director
AA Man of Quality1926 · Director	Director
The Plastic Age1925 · Director	Director
A Broadway Lady1925 · Director	Director
The Age of Innocence1924 · Director	Director