Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, (August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers.Keeler was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1909, of Irish Catholic extraction. She was the sister of minor actresses, Helen and Gertrude Keeler.Her father was a truck driver, and when she was three years old, her family packed up and moved to New York City where he knew he could get better pay. But it was not enough: there were six children, and although Keeler was interested in taking dance lessons, the family could not afford to send her.
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