Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in The Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year, and made into a movie several times, most famously in 1935.

Ruggles ' new ' owners ', crude nouveau riche Americans Egbert and Effie Floud ( Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland ), bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington ; a remote Western boomtown.

Newly imbued with the spirit of democracy and self-determination, Ruggles becomes his own man, giving up his previous employment and opening a restaurant in Red Gap.

Ruggles of Red Gap was adapted as a radio play on the July 10, 1939 episode of Lux Radio Theater, the December 17, 1945 episode of The Screen Guild Theater and the June 8, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, all with Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles reprising their film parts.

* Ruggles of Red Gap on Lux Radio Theater: July 10, 1939

* Ruggles of Red Gap on Screen Guild Theater: December 17, 1945

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Among Laughton's biggest movie-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Big Clock.

Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.

In 1937 he recorded Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on a 10-inch Columbia 78, having made a strong impression with it in Ruggles of Red Gap.

Laughton won the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap in 1935.

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

* Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 )

Her television specials included " Meet Me in St. Louis ", " Young at Heart ", " Feathertop ", " The Danny Thomas Show 1967 ", " The Victor Borge Show ", " Ruggles of Red Gap " on Producers ' Showcase and " Hooray for Love ".

Throughout the 1930s he was teamed with comic actress Mary Boland in a string of domestic farces, notably Six of a Kind, Ruggles of Red Gap, and People Will Talk ; Boland was the domineering wife and Ruggles the mild-mannered husband.

* Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) with Charles Laughton and Zasu Pitts

She also appeared in the once controversial Jean Harlow film Red-Headed Woman ( 1932 ), the musical comedy The Big Broadcast ( 1932 ) with Bing Crosby, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and was widely praised for her comedic performance in Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) opposite Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles.

Among his films of this period, were Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ), playing Uriah Heep in David Copperfield ( 1935 ) and H. G.

* Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 )

* Ruggles of Red Gap, a 1915 novel that has been adapted for stage and film

It is perhaps the need to balance the social and scientific aspects of archaeoastronomy which led Clive Ruggles to describe it as: "... field with academic work of high quality at one end but uncontrolled speculation bordering on lunacy at the other.

Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson ( 1822 – 1903 ) and Jessie Janet Woodrow ( 1826 – 1888 ).

As Ruggles attempts to adjust to this rough new community, he learns to live life on his own terms, achieving a fulfilling independence as a result.

Hawks got character actors Charlie Ruggles on loan from Paramount Pictures to play Major Horace Applegate and Barry Fitzgerald on loan from the The Mary Pickford Corporation to play the gardener Aloysius Gogarty.

C. Ruggles Smith, desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University, learned of a New York committee headed by Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university, and approached Goldstein with a proposal to give the Middlesex campus and charter to Goldstein's committee, in the hope that his committee might " possess the apparent ability to reestablish the School of Medicine on an approved basis.

The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.

Carl ( Charles Sprague ) Ruggles was born in East Marion, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1876.

Theodore Ruggles Timby, inventor of the revolving turret used on the U. S. S.

Stopes arrived in North America before Christmas to start her research and on 29 December she attended a dinner in St. Louis, Missouri, where she met Reginald Ruggles Gates.

In 1912 Ruggles moved to New York and began writing an opera based on the German play “ The Sunken Bell ” by Gerhart Hauptmann.

Known for his profanity, Ruggles was also anti-semitic ; for example, he wrote to Henry Cowell about, " that filthy bunch of Juilliard Jews ... cheap, without dignity, and with little or no talent ," especially picking on Arthur Berger.

Ruggles died in Bennington, Vermont on October 24, 1971 due to old age and complications resulting from pneumonia.

He was survived by a large family, including his son Ruggles Wright who would go on to invent the timber slide.

Given that Ruggles had no experience with the genre – his best-known films at that point were the Academy Award-winning Western epic Cimarron ( 1931 ) and the Mae West comedy I'm No Angel ( 1933 ), both more than a decade old – and his Hollywood career was on a downslide, he was an odd choice indeed.

* June 20 – John Ruggles, American politician ( b. 1789 )

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.

* June 20-John Ruggles, who was awarded for improved driving wheels ( b. 1789 ).

Wesley Ruggles ( June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972 ) was an American film director.

The first four judges elected at the special judicial state election in June 1847 were Freeborn G. Jewett ( to a term of two and a half years ), Greene C. Bronson ( to a term of four and a half years ), Charles H. Ruggles ( to a term of six and a half years ), and Addison Gardiner ( to a term of eight and a half years ).

* June 11-Wesley Ruggles, American movie director, producer

* February 8 – Charles Ruggles, American actor ( d. 1970 )

Charles Sherman “ Charlie ” Ruggles ( February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970 ) was a comic American actor.

John Ruggles ( October 8, 1789June 20, 1874 ) was an American politician from the U. S. state of Maine.

* October 8 – John Ruggles, awarded for improved driving wheels ( died 1874 ).