Dan Dailey

b. 14 Dec 1914 (or 1917), NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 16 Oct 1978. A stylish and flexible song-and-dance-man having a genial character, who starred in a few of the very most interesting musicals from the 40s and 50s, frequently as a vaudeville performer or related. As a young child, Dailey worked well in minstrel displays and vaudeville. In 1937 he got employment within the chorus of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Broadway display Babes In Hands, and, 2 yrs later, performed a supporting part in another stage musical, Celebrities In Your Eye, which starred Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante. His 1st appearance inside a film musical arrived in 1941 using the luxurious Ziegfeld Girl, that was followed by Woman Be Great and Panama Hattie. After services in World Battle II, Dailey authorized for 20th Century-Fox and started to play the business lead in films such as for example Mom Wore Tights (the to begin several he made out of Betty Grable), YOU HAD BEEN DESIGNED FOR Me, Provide My Regards To Broadway, When My Baby Smiles At Me (that he was nominated to discover the best acting professional Oscar, and then become beaten by Laurence Olivier!), You’re My Everything, I’ll MANAGE, My Blue Heaven, and Contact Me personally Mister. In 1952 his portrayal of football celebrity Dizzy Dean within the Satisfaction Of St. Louis was extremely acclaimed. In addition to these periodic, but skilfully performed straight tasks, he continuing to devote the majority of his time and energy to musicals like the Girl NEARBY, There’s No Business Like Display Business, It’s Constantly Fair Weather, THE VERY BEST Things In Existence Are Free, Meet up with Me In NEVADA, and Pepe (1960). At that time, the luxurious, big spending budget musicals experienced become traditional, and Dailey consequently done stage and in the best US cabaret areas. In the past due 50s he co-starred with Vittorio De Sica, Jack port Hawkins and Richard Conte within the Four Just Males, a tv series which was popular in america and UK, and his additional small screen function included The Governor And J.J. within the 60s, and Faraday And Organization within the 70s.