Wesley Ruggles
| Wesley Ruggles | |
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| Born |
June 11, 1889 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died |
January 8, 1972 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1915–1946 |
| Spouse(s) |
Virginia Caldwell (1921 - 1924) (divorced) Arline Judge (1931 - 1937) (divorced) Marcelle Rogez (1940 - 1972) (his death) |
January 8, 1972 (aged 82)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Virginia Caldwell (1921 - 1924) (divorced) Arline Judge (1931 - 1937) (divorced)
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.
He was born in Los Angeles, younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin.
In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 films — including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture.
Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant, College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard.
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