Wesley Ruggles
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 — 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.
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The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · Associate Producer
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
1951
London Town
1946 · Producer, Director, Story
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · Director
Slightly Dangerous
1943 · Director
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · Director, Writer
You Belong to Me
1941 · Director, Producer
Arizona
1940 · Director, Producer
Too Many Husbands
1940 · Director, Producer
Invitation to Happiness
1939 · Director, Producer
Sing, You Sinners
1938 · Director, Producer
True Confession
1937 · Director
I Met Him in Paris
1937 · Director, Producer
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936 · Director, Producer
The Bride Comes Home
1935 · Director, Producer
Accent on Youth
1935 · Director
Mississippi
1935 · Co-Director
The Gilded Lily
1935 · Director
Shoot the Works
1934 · Director
Bolero
1934 · Director
I'm No Angel
1933 · Director
College Humor
1933 · Director
The Monkey's Paw
1933 · Director
No Man of Her Own
1932 · Director
Roar of the Dragon
1932 · Director
Are These Our Children?
1931 · Director, Story
Cimarron
1931 · Director, Producer
The Sea Bat
1930 · Director, Producer
Honey
1930 · Director
Condemned!
1929 · Director
Street Girl
1929 · Director, Producer
Girl Overboard
1929 · Director
Scandal
1929 · Director
The Cross Country Run
1929 · Director
Finders Keepers
1928 · Director
The Fourflusher
1928 · Director
Silk Stockings
1927 · Director
Beware of Widows
1927 · Director
Breaking Records
1927 · Director
Flashing Oars
1927 · Director
The Cinder Path
1927 · Director
The Relay
1927 · Director
Around the Bases
1927 · Director
The Last Lap
1926 · Director
The Collegians
1926 · Director
Hooked at the Altar
1926 · Director
A Man of Quality
1926 · Director
The Plastic Age
1925 · Director, Continuity
A Broadway Lady
1925 · Director
The Age of Innocence
1924 · Director
Slippy McGee
1923 · Director
The Heart Raider
1923 · Director
The Remittance Woman
1923 · Director
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
1923 · Director
If I Were Queen
1922 · Director
Wild Honey
1922 · Director
Over the Wire
1921 · Director
Uncharted Seas
1921 · Director
The Greater Claim
1921 · Director
Love
1920 · Director
The Leopard Woman
1920 · Director
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920 · Himself
The Desperate Hero
1920 · Director
Sooner or Later
1920 · Director
Piccadilly Jim
1919 · Director
Triple Trouble
1918 · Crook
For France
1917 · Director
Outcast
1917 · Assistant Director
Her Torpedoed Love
1917 · Messenger Inside the House
Behind the Screen
1916 · Actor (uncredited)
The Pawnshop
1916 · Ring Client (uncredited)
Beatrice Fairfax
1916 · #15 Wristwatches
Police
1916 · Jailbird and Thief
The Floorwalker
1916 · Policeman (uncredited)
A Submarine Pirate
1915 · His accomplice / Sub Officer
A Night in the Show
1915 · Second Man in Balcony Front Row
Her Painted Hero
1915 · Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited)
Shanghaied
1915 · Shipowner
A Lover's Lost Control
1915 · Shoe Clerk
Gussle Rivals Jonah
1915 · Ship Steward / Ship Passenger
Gussle's Wayward Path
1915 · Clergyman
Caught in a Park
1915 · The Cop
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