Background
Dan Dailey was born on 14 December 1915 in New York.
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1950
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1952
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1953
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1954
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1956
Dan Dailey was born on 14 December 1915 in New York.
Dan Dailey began with dancing school, then was in a minstrel show as a boy, in vaudeville in his teens, and then Minsky’s, Broadway, and his first film, The Mortal Storm (40, Frank Borzage). Even before he went into the army in 1942, he had smiled his way into a place as an honest hoofer: Susan and God (40, George Cukor); Ziegfeld Girl (41, Robert Z. Leonard); Moon Over Her Shoulder (41, Alfred Werker); Lady Be Good (41, Norman Z. McLeod); Panama Hattie (42, McLeod); Give Out, Sisters (42, Eddie Cline); and Sunday Punch (42, David Miller).
After the war, he became a mainstay of dull Fox musicals: Mother Wore Tights (47, Walter Lang); You Were Meant for Me (48, Lloyd Bacon); Give My Regards to Broadway (48, Bacon); When My Babt/ Smiles at Me (48, Lang); Chicken Even/ Sunday (49, George Seaton); and My Blue Heaven (50, Henry Koster). Not even such cheerfulness could wipe the grin oil his face. He tried to branch out into straight acting and made three films for John Ford: When Willie Conies Marching Home (50), What Price Glory? (52), and The Wings of Eagles (57). Though musicals were his homeground, he had a few dramatic roles: I Can Get It for You Wholesale (51, Michael Gordon); Call Me Mister (51. Bacon); as baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean in The Pride of St. Louis (52, Harmon Jones); Meet Me at the Fair (52, Douglas Sirk); Taxi (53, Gregon Ratoff); There's No Business Like Show Business (54, Lang); It’s Always Fair Weather (55, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly); Meet Me in Las Vegas (56, Rov Rowland); and The Best Things in Life Are Free (56, Michael Curtiz).
His decline was swift, albeit cushioned by TV: Oh. Men! Oh. Women! (57. Nunnally Johnson); The Wayward Bus (57, Victor Vicas); Underwater Warrior (58, Andrew Marton); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (62, Martin Hitt); and as Clyde Toison in The Private Files of / Edgar Hoover (77, Larry Cohen).
