- Born Name: Wesley Ruggles
- Birthday: 1889-06-11 (Year-Month-Day)
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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 Whartons novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferbers 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 Im 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 cinemas first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that countrys 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.[edit] External linksWesley Ruggles at the Internet Movie DatabasePersondataNameRuggles, WesleyAlternative namesShort descriptionFilm directorDate of birth1889-6-11Place of birthLos Angeles, California, U.S.Date of deathJanuary 8, 1972(1972-01-08) (aged 82)Place of deathSanta Monica, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_RugglesCategories: American film directors | Western (genre) film directors | People from Los Angeles, California | Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) | 1889 births | 1972 deathsHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from October 2007 | All articles lacking sources | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoPolski This page was last modified on 6 September 2010 at 18:47.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();