Wesley Ruggles 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 — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931.

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  • Wesley Ruggles 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 — 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 with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel with Mae West and Cary Grant, College Humor with Bing Crosby, and Bolero 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 — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953. Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
  • Wesley Ruggles war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Produzent und Schauspieler. Ruggles begann als Nebendarsteller in Filmen mit Charlie Chaplin bei den Essanay Studios. In den 1930er und 1940er Jahren war er Regisseur und Produzent von Filmen der unterschiedlichsten Genres, jedoch hauptsächlich von romantischen Komödien. So führte er eine Reihe berühmter Filmpaare in seinen Arbeiten zusammen, wie z. B. Clark Gable und Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own von 1932, Ronald Colman und Ann Harding in Condemned (1929) oder auch Claudette Colbert und Fred MacMurray in The Bride comes Home und The Gilded Lily (beide 1935). Ferner verhalf er Bing Crosby und Mae West zu ihren ersten großen Filmrollen. Seine weitaus berühmteste Arbeit ist der Western Cimarron, für den er eine Oscarnominierung für die beste Regie erhielt. Wesley Ruggles starb 1972 im Alter von 82 Jahren und wurde im Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Kalifornien beerdigt. Er war zweimal verheiratet: 1931 heiratete er die Schauspielerin Arline Judge (* 1912; † 1974), von der er sich 1937 scheiden ließ. Seine Ehe mit der Schauspielerin Marcelle Rogez (* 1909; † 1993) hielt von 1940 bis zu seinem Tod. Sein Bruder Charles Ruggles (* 1886; † 1970) war ebenfalls Schauspieler.
  • Wesley Ruggles est un réalisateur américain né le 11 juin 1889 à Los Angeles, Californie et décédé le 8 janvier 1972 à Santa Monica, Californie.
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  • Wesley Ruggles 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 — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931.
  • Wesley Ruggles war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Produzent und Schauspieler. Ruggles begann als Nebendarsteller in Filmen mit Charlie Chaplin bei den Essanay Studios. In den 1930er und 1940er Jahren war er Regisseur und Produzent von Filmen der unterschiedlichsten Genres, jedoch hauptsächlich von romantischen Komödien. So führte er eine Reihe berühmter Filmpaare in seinen Arbeiten zusammen, wie z. B.
  • Wesley Ruggles est un réalisateur américain né le 11 juin 1889 à Los Angeles, Californie et décédé le 8 janvier 1972 à Santa Monica, Californie.
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