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" - uncredited, "The Place You Hold in My Heart" - uncredited, "I Know a Place" - uncredited)
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: "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline" - uncredited, "Who?" - uncredited, "Ballroom Dance Medley" - uncredited, "Carolina in the Morning" - uncredited, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" - uncredited, "Jingle Bells" - 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: "I'm in Good Shape" - uncredited, "Karanina" - uncredited, "Boogie Woogie Conga" - uncredited, "Wherever You Go" - uncredited)
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)
(on playing the Scarecrow in
The Wizard of Oz) I knew that I was taking part in a strange kind of adventure.
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Trivia:
Bolger was among those entertainers who opened Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall on December 27, 1932. After the management realized that the public's taste for vaudeville had waned, it cut back on the live entertainment and supplemented it with movies.
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