1. Dan Dailey is best remembered for a series of popular musicals he made at 20th Century Fox such as Mother Wore Tights.
31 Facts About Dan Dailey
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Dan Dailey appeared in a minstrel show in 1921 and later appeared in vaudeville.
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Dan Dailey worked as a golf caddy and shoe salesman before he got his first good break, playing in a show on a South American cruise ship in 1934.
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Dan Dailey made his Broadway debut in 1937 in Babes in Arms.
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Dan Dailey followed it with Stars in Your Eyes and I Married an Angel.
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Dan Dailey was the juvenile lead in The Captain Is a Lady and Dulcy.
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Dan Dailey appeared in a musical comedy in Hullabaloo, then had a small role in the drama Keeping Company and was the juvenile in The Wild Man of Borneo.
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Dan Dailey could be seen in Washington Melodrama and Ziegfeld Girl, and played a gangster in The Get-Away.
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Dan Dailey was third billed in a "B", Down in San Diego and had a small part in an "A" musical, Lady Be Good.
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Dan Dailey was loaned out to 20th Century Fox for Moon Over Her Shoulder, then appeared opposite Donna Reed in Mokey.
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Dan Dailey stayed at that studio for Give Out, Sisters, a musical with The Andrews Sisters and Donald O'Connor.
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However Dan Dailey was drafted and Gene Kelly ended up taking the role.
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When Dan Dailey returned to Hollywood MGM did not renew his contract, which led him to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
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Dan Dailey's part was built up during filming and the movie was Fox's most popular movie of 1947, making $5 million.
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Dan Dailey was reunited with Grable in When My Baby Smiles at Me.
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Dan Dailey received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy in 1951.
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Dan Dailey made a fourth film with Grable, Call Me Mister.
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Dan Dailey made a second film with Ford, a remake of What Price Glory, where he teamed with James Cagney.
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Dan Dailey did another baseball-themed film, The Kid from Left Field.
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In 1954, Dan Dailey signed a new seven-year contract with Fox.
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Dan Dailey was scheduled to appear in the 20th Century Fox musical extravaganza There's No Business Like Show Business, which featured Irving Berlin's music and starred Monroe, Ethel Merman, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray, and Donald O'Connor, whose wife Gwen divorced him and married Dan Dailey around that time.
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Dan Dailey agreed to appear in Susan Slept Here and Heller in Pink Tights.
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Dan Dailey starred opposite Cyd Charisse and Agnes Moorehead in Meet Me in Las Vegas.
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Dan Dailey returned to Fox for one more musical, The Best Things in Life Are Free to play songwriter Ray Henderson opposite Gordon MacRae.
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Dan Dailey made a war film for MGM, Underwater Warrior.
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Dan Dailey starred with Cantinflas in Pepe, had a cameo in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, and made Four Nights of the Full Moon in Spain.
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Dan Dailey returned to Broadway in Catch Me If You Can.
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Dan Dailey's performance won him the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Musical or Comedy for performances in 1969, the year that this category was introduced.
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Dan Dailey divorced his first wife in 1941 and remarried a year later to Elizabeth Hofert.
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Dan Dailey died on October 16,1978, from complications following hip replacement surgery.
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Dan Dailey is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.