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Post by petrolino on Oct 29, 2017 4:37:55 GMT
He sounds like a long-fogotten Edwardian chimney sweep. What's your first thought when you hear about Charlie Ruggles?
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 29, 2017 5:24:36 GMT
I was very surprised by his performance as the old rancher -- Veronica Lake's dad -- in the Joel McCrea Western RAMROD. A very different look and characterization for him.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 29, 2017 10:41:48 GMT
I was very surprised by his performance as the old rancher -- Veronica Lake's dad -- in the Joel McCrea Western RAMROD. A very different look and characterization for him. I like 'Ramrod'. The director Andre De Toth said he used some of the same elements in film noir and westerns, which you see with 'Ramrod'. Charles Ruggles
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 29, 2017 10:45:21 GMT
Yes, RAMROD is really a Noir Western -- with Lake (the director's wife) a classic femme fatale .. luring five men into her web.
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Post by Isapop on Oct 29, 2017 11:40:45 GMT
He's one of the things that makes Bringing Up Baby great. He gives a pricelessly funny performance.
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Post by claudius on Oct 29, 2017 13:23:13 GMT
Was he friends with Edward Everett Horton? The two shared connected roles: the suitors in TROUBLE IN PARADISE, Mad Hatter and MArch Hare in ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and Story Narrators in ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE.
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Post by bess1971s on Oct 29, 2017 14:24:20 GMT
He always struck me as one of those funny and likeable. He was a riot in Bringing Up Baby and I especially liked him as the kind grandpa in the original Parent Trap.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 30, 2017 18:16:19 GMT
With Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap 1935, I remember it as a funny movie.
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