Ruby Keeler

b. Ethel Hilda Keeler, 25 August 1909, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 28 February 1993, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. A charming and petite actress and singer renowned for the Busby Berkeley ‘Depression-era' musicals she made with Dick Powell in the 30s, particularly for 42nd Street in which Warner Baxter barked at her: ‘You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star.' That is exactly what she did do, some time after taking dance lessons as a child and tap-dancing in the speakeasies of New York while she was still a teenager. In 1927 she danced her way in...