Rags Ragland died how many years after starring in Meet the People?
Meet the People Meet the People (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film made during World War II, and starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell and featuring Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Rags Ragland and June Allyson. The film takes its title from a successful Los Angeles stage revue, which ran on Broadway from December 25, 1940 to May 10, 1941. Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, Spike Jones and his City Slickers, and Virginia O'Brien were also in the original stage cast. O'Brien sings the hit song "Say We're Sweethearts Again".
Robert Emmett Keane Robert Emmett Keane (March 4, 1883 – July 2, 1981) was an American actor of both the stage and screen. He was also known professionally by the names: Emmett Keane, Robert Keane, R. Emmett Keane, and Robert E. Keane. He began on stage in the 1910s, with his first Broadway appearance being in the 1914 production of "The Passing Show of 1914". He would continue on the stage through the mid-1930s, appearing in both London and New York theater productions. His film career began in 1930, and over the twenty-five years of that career he would appear in between 170–200 films. At the very tail end of his acting life he would make several appearances on the small screen. Married twice, the first time would be a short-lived union with Muriel Inetta Window, an opera singer, vaudeville actress and 1913 Peacock Girl with the Ziegfeld Follies. They were married in approximately 1916 and divorced in 1920. After his divorce, he would marry the actress Claire Whitney in 1921, and they would remain married until her death in 1969. He retired in 1958, and would die on July 2, 1981 and be buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, next to his wife, Claire (although her grave is unmarked).