Ruby Keeler
- Category : Entertainment-Actor-Actress
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (43,56)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sleeping Phoenix 3
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Biography
Canadian-American actress and dancer, she was the first of six kids raised in a New York tenement. A chorus girl at 13, helping to support the family, she moved up. From Ziegfeld, she went to Hollywood to do "42nd Street," a '30s musical classic. That was followed by a series of song and dance movies with Dick Powell.
Her first marriage, 1928, was to singing film star, Al Jolson. They adopted a son, 1935, and she divorced him in 1940, having received ridicule and denigration from him. She said her life began with her second marriage to John Lowe, 1942. She retired to raise their four kids.
She died of cancer on 28 February 1993 at 00:40 AM in Rancho Mirage, California, aged 83.