A child performer, by the early 1950s Dan Dailey's life was under considerable strain. In 1951 he checked himself into the Menninger Clinic for five months and, after his return to Hollywood presented his experiences there frankly to Hedda Hopper and other reporters, pointing out that the necessity...See full bio »
1956Meet Me in Las Vegas
(performer: "The Gal with the Yaller Shoes", "My Lucky Charm")
1955It's Always Fair Weather
(performer: "March, March" 1955 - uncredited, "The Time for Parting" 1955 - uncredited, "Once Upon a Time" 1955 - uncredited, "I Shouldn't Have Come" 1955 - uncredited, "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" 1854 - uncredited, "Be My Love" 1950 - uncredited / "Saturation-Wise" 1955 - uncredited)
1954There's No Business Like Show Business
(performer: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited, "Remember" - uncredited)
1953The Girl Next Door
(performer: "The Great White Way" - uncredited, "I'd Rather Have a Pal Than a Gal Anytime" - uncredited, "You're Doin' All Right" - uncredited, "Nowhere Guy" - uncredited, "I'm Mad About the Girl Next Door" - uncredited, "You" - uncredited, "You/I'd Rather Have a Pal/I'm Mad About the Girl Next Door" medley - uncredited)
1953Meet Me at the Fair
(performer: "Oh! Susanna" - uncredited, "I Was There" - uncredited, "Remember the Time" - uncredited, "Sweet Genevieve" - uncredited)
1951Call Me Mister
(performer: "I JUST CAN'T DO ENOUGH FOR YOU, BABY", "LOVE IS BACK IN BUSINESS" / "CALL ME MISTER")
1950I'll Get By
(performer: "It's Been a Long, Long Time")
1950My Blue Heaven
(performer: "My Blue Heaven" - uncredited, "It's Deductible" - uncredited, "What a Man" - uncredited, "Halloween" - uncredited, "I Love a New Yorker" - uncredited, "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard" - uncredited, "The Friendly Islands" - uncredited, "Don't Rock the Boat, Dear" - uncredited)
1950A Ticket to Tomahawk
(performer: "Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are" - uncredited, "A Ticket to Tomahawk On the Colorado Trail", "Pat Works on the Railway" - uncredited)
1950When Willie Comes Marching Home
(performer: "Somebody Stole My Gal" - uncredited, "You've Got Me This Way Whatta-Ya Gonna Do About It" - uncredited, "Frère Jacques" - uncredited)
1949You're My Everything
(performer: "I Want to Be Teacher's Pet" - uncredited, "The Varsity Drag" - uncredited, "You're My Everything" - uncredited, "I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful" - uncredited, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", "Lollipop Prelude and Interlude" - uncredited, "On the Good Ship Lollipop" - uncredited)
1947Mother Wore Tights
(performer: "Burlington Bertie from Bow" - uncredited, "You Do", "This Is My Favorite City", "We're a Couple of Broadway Brothers", "Kokomo, Indiana", "Tra-La-La-La" - uncredited, "There's Nothing Like a Song", " Rolling Down Bowling Green On a Little Two-Seat Tandem")
1942Give Out, Sisters
(performer: "Jiggers the Beat" / as Dan Dailey Jr.)
1942Mokey
(performer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" 1929 - uncredited)
In 1961, he starred in an unsold pilot for a TV series called, "The Man from Telegraph Hill" based on the life of San Francisco columnist Herb Caen.
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In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
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Trivia:
Signed by MGM in 1940, the song-and-dance man was instead put into straight acting roles that went nowhere. His career was interrupted by military service. At first making training films in Long Island, he later served with the Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he taught recruits how to ride horses. He was eventually sent overseas and served with the 88th Infantry Regiment in northern Italy.
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