Jack Donohue

b. John Francis Donohue, 3 November 1908, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 27 March 1984, Marina Del Rey, California, USA. An commercial worker, Donohue used dancing as a kind of physical therapy carrying out a severe incident. He became a specialist dancer in NY and from the first 30s onwards he previously a dual profession on Broadway, choreographing and staging displays, and in Hollywood. In the 50s he also embraced tv. In the 50s Donohue choreographed Best Banana (1951) and Mr. Fantastic (1956). Among his Hollywood musicals as dance movie director are George White colored’s Scandals and Music In The Air flow (both 1934), Shirley Temple’s The Littlest Rebel, THE TINY Colonel, Curly Best and Captain January (all 1935), The Fleet’s In (1942), Lady Crazy and Broadway Tempo (both 1943), Bathing Beauty (1944), IT JUST HAPPENED In Brooklyn (1946), and Calamity Jane (1953). Film credits as choreographer included 1977’s NY, NY. He also aimed some films, included in this Close-Up (1948), The Yellowish Cab Man (1950), Lucky Me (1954), Babes In Toyland (1961), Relationship On The Stones (1965) and Assault ON THE Queen (1966). On tv from the first 50s Donohue aimed numerous episodes from the displays of Frank Sinatra, Crimson Skelton and George Gobel; Donohue also aimed some shows of displays starring Lucille Ball, Dean Martin and Jim Nabors. In the 70s, he was movie director of Once Upon A Mattress (1972), Ed Sullivan’s Broadway (1973) and Pinocchio (1976), aswell as episodes from the series Manhattan Transfer (1975) and the problem humor Chico And THE PERSON (1974-78). (NB: In a few credits, his name is certainly spelled Donahue.)