Johnny Downs

b. John Morey Downs, 10 Oct 1913, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 6 June 1994, Coronado, California, USA. An old-styled music and dance guy, Downs’ contributions towards the screen like a dancer and vocalist may not possess stolen the news, however in their entirety they added up to worthwhile body of function. The son of the navy lieutenant, Downs’ family members relocated to NORTH PARK when he was eight. Urged by his mom to wait film auditions, he produced his debut inside a silent humor alongside Charley Run after, before you begin a series of Our Gang silent films for Hal Roach. His 1st grounding in stage function came within the east coastline, however, reverse Jimmy Durante in Hit Me Pink. Back again with Roach, he required a small part in the Laurel And Hardy creation from the stage musical strike, Babes In Toyland. His following musical movies from the 30s (frequently dubbed teenager operas or university musicals) included University Scandal (1935 – remade as Sweater Woman in 1942), University Vacation and Pigskin Parade (both 1936), SWITCH OFF The Moon (1937), and Keep That Co-Ed (1938). Later on he turned to Common for an additional group of low-budget musical movies. These started with Golf swing, Sister, Golf swing (1939, which noticed him sing ‘The Baltimore Rumble’, an meant US response to ‘The Lambeth Walk’), after that Hawaiian Evenings (1939). I Can’t OFFER YOU Anything But Like, Baby from the next year noticed him sing the title-song, before he relocated to Republic for Melody And Moonlight. Another of Downs’ most well-known figures, ‘The Aloha Lowdown’, was premiered within the slice and paste Moonlight And Hawaii soundtrack. The films that Downs made an appearance in through the 40s included, Mad Monster (1942), Harvest Melody (1943), Campus Tempo, Trocadero, and Twilight OVER THE Prairie (all 1944), Rhapsody In Blue (1945), A CHILD From Brooklyn (1946), and Square Dance Jubilee (1949). Downs spent the first 50s in Broadway productions such as for example Here Come GIRLS and so are You With It? He came back to Hollywood in 1953 for his last main function in Cruisin’ Down The River, before time for his adopted NORTH PARK home, appearing frequently on tv as a bunch of kids’s programmes for pretty much two decades.