Ray Bolger

Raymond Wallace, Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. Bolger was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Noticed by MGM producers and resulted in his being cast in his most famous role, that of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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