Wesley Ruggles

Gender: Male
Born: 11th June 1889
Died: 8th January 1972
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Accent on Youth, Arizona, Bolero, Broadway Lady, Cimarron, College Humor, Condemned, I'm No Angel, I Met Him in Paris, Invitation to Happiness, London Town, Love, No Man of Her Own, Roar of the Dragon, See Here, Private Hargrove, Shoot the Works, Sing You Sinners, Slightly Dangerous, Slippy McGee, Somewhere I'll Find You, Street Girl, The Bride Comes Home, The Gilded Lily, The Leopard Woman, The Monkey's Paw, The Plastic Age, The Sea Bat, Too Many Husbands, True Confession, Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, You Belong to Me

Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.

He was born in Los Angeles, a 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 mostly forgettable 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.

Although 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, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona).

His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film

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