Ray Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. He was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in
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Give My Regards to Broadway
(1959)
(performer: "That's Entertainment" - uncredited, "Together, Wherever We Go" - uncredited, "Everybody Likes My Girl", "Harrigan" - uncredited, "Give Me Regards to Broadway" - uncredited)
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Christmas
(1953)
(performer: "I Hope You Have a Merry Christmas")
1952April in Paris
(performer: "I Ask You", "The Place You Hold in My Heart", "I Know a Place")
1952Where's Charley?
(performer: "MAKE A MIRACLE", "MY DARLING, MY DARLING", "ONCE IN LOVE WITH AMY", "BETTER GET OUT OF HERE")
1949Look for the Silver Lining
(performer: "Who?" - uncredited, "Ballroom Dance Medley" - uncredited, "Carolina in the Morning" - uncredited, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" - uncredited, "Jingle Bells" - uncredited / "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline" - uncredited)
1946The Harvey Girls
(performer: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" - uncredited, "Swing Your Partner Round and Round" - uncredited)
1943Stage Door Canteen
(performer: "The Girl I Love to Leave Behind" 1943)
1942Four Jacks and a Jill
(performer: "Wherever You Go" 1941, "I'm in Good Shape" 1941, "Boogie Woogie Conga" 1941 / "Karanina" 1941)
1941Sunny
(performer: "Jack Tar and Sam Gob", "Ringmaster", "Who?")
1939The Wizard of Oz
(performer: "If I Only Had a Brain" 1939 - uncredited, "We're Off to See the Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "We're Off To See The Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "If I Only Had the Nerve/We're Off To See The Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "The Merry Old Land of Oz" 1939 - uncredited, "If I Were King of the Forest" 1939 - uncredited)
[When asked how much money he made from the repeat showings of The Wizard of Oz, he and his wife often responded] No residuals, just immortality.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 115-116. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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