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Raymond Wallace Bolger was born at 598 Second St., South Boston, Massachusetts, into a Catholic family of Irish descent.He was the son of James Edward Bolger and Anne C. née Wallace. His father, James, was a first-generation American of Irish descent, who was born in Fall River, Massachusetts.Bolger's mother "Annie," was born into a large Irish-American family in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.. Bolger grew up and attended school in the Codman Square section of the Dorchester neighborhood of ...
Ray Bolger. Actor: The Wizard of Oz. Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bolger on January 10, 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Anne C. (Wallace) and James Edward Bolger, both Irish-Americans. Ray began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. Like Gene Kelly, he was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. He...
Jan 16, 1987 · Ray Bolger, the angular, disjointed hoofer whose crackling voice and lilting smile made him a favorite of film fans and theatergoers for nearly 60 years, died Thursday.
Jan 16, 1987 · Ray Bolger, the loose-limbed song-and-dance man who became known to millions as the Scarecrow in ''The Wizard of Oz,'' died yesterday of cancer in Los Angeles.
Ray Bolger. Actor: The Wizard of Oz. Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bolger on January 10, 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Anne C. (Wallace) and James Edward Bolger, both Irish-Americans. Ray began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. Like Gene Kelly, he was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. He...
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 The Great Ziegfeld (1936). This was soon followed by a role opposite Eleanor Powell in Rosalie (1937). His first dancing and singing role was in Sweethearts (1938), where he did the "wooden shoes" number ...
Jul 10, 2014 · We all want a bit of magic in our lives, but yellow brick roads to show us the way are in short supply. Instead, we turn to the arts. . . .
B est known as the Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz," Ray Bolger was an angular, disjointed hoofer whose crackling voice and lilting smile made him a favorite of film fans and theatergoers for nearly 60 years.. Bolger, the dancer who liked to think of himself as more of a comedian, had enjoyed a career that included vaudeville in the 1920s ("Sanford and Bolger, a Pair of Nifties"), the Broadway stage ("On Your Toes," in which he first performed the Richard Rodgers classic "Slaughter on Tenth ...
Oct 19, 2010 · Long, lanky and a unique classic movie singer, dancer, and comedian, Ray Bolger appeared in a little over 20 films during the course of his career, but his nimble, eccentric dance style and winning, aw-shucks onscreen persona nevertheless made an indelible contribution to the movie musical.
Ray Bolger knew he wanted to be a performer when, as a 16-year-old from a struggling Irish Catholic family in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, he attended a matinee of “Jack O’Lantern ...
