Biography: Dan Dailey |
The son of a hotelier, Dan Dailey began taking dancing lessons at the age of 14. He worked in minstrel shows, vaudeville and burlesque, taking many "joe jobs" during fallow periods. Graduating to Broadway, Dailey was featured in Babes in Arms, Stars... more
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (1975)
Tags: Western Comedy Adventure Action
Length: 74min
[124828] This TV movie is a sequel to 1972's Daughters of Joshua Cabe (which was also a TV movie). Cabe (Dan Dailey) is an itinerant western trapper hoping to gain extra homesteading land by pretending to have a family. He hires three "fallen women"...
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 52min
Koska. ..and His Family was an unsold 60-minute pilot, originally telecast on the last day of 1973. Koska (Herb Edelman), an unemployed aerospace engineer, decides to become an inventor. He sets up a lab in his own home, where he is constantly driven...
Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Cast: Paul Newman Martin Ritt
Tags: Adventure Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 145min
The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from semi-autobiographical "Nick Adams" stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Played by Richard Beymer (West Side Story), Nick Adams is a young...
Cast: Bing Crosby Jack Lemmon Shirley Jones Janet Leigh Tony Curtis Jimmy Durante
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 157min
Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case...
Cast: David Niven Ginger Rogers
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy
Length: 90min
Edward Chodorov's stage farce +Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film version. Dan Dailey plays psychiatrist Arthur Turner, who is somewhat put out when he discovers that one of his patients is the...
Cast: Jayne Mansfield
Tags: Drama
Length: 89min
John Steineck's novel The Wayward Bus was retranslated into pop-entertainment terms for the screen. Most of the story takes place on the charter bus owned by driver Rick Jason. Travelling slowly through a treacherous California mountain region, the...
Cast: John Wayne John Ford
Length: 110min
The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr. Frank "Spig" Wead. John Wayne stars as Wead, a reckless WW1 Naval aviator who (it says here) was instrumental in advancing the...
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Tags: Musical Romance Reunion Films Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 102min
Cooked up by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather could well have been titled On the Town Ten Years Later. Like 1949's On the Town (also a Comden/Green collaboration), this MGM musical follows the exploits of three servicemen...
Cast: Ross Martin Raymond Bailey
Tags: Biopic War Adventure Adventure War
Length: 90min
The many undersea exploits of a Navy frogman provide the basis of this episodic adventure based on the true story of naval commander Francis D. Fane. The exciting underwater sequences include actual footage of divers swimming with sharks and a...
Cast: Agnes Moorehead Lena Horne Frank Sinatra Cyd Charisse
Tags: Musical Romance Musical Romance
Length: 112min
A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy rancher Chuck Rodwell (Dan Dailey), who takes a Vegas vacation with his mother (Agnes Moorehead). At the same time, ballerina...
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