The best Dan Dailey’s movies on Apple iTunes

Dan Dailey

Dan Dailey

14/12/1913- 16/10/1978
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dan Dailey’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dan Dailey.
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There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business
6.4/10
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1941
  • Character: Jimmy Walters (as Dan Dailey Jr.)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/01/1957
  • Character: 'Jughead' Carson
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

It's Always Fair Weather

It's Always Fair Weather
7/10
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas
6.1/10
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

Panama Hattie

Panama Hattie
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1942
  • Character: Dick Bulliard (as Dan Dailey Jr.)
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/07/1962
  • Character: Billy Campbell
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.

That's Dancing!

That's Dancing!
7.2/10
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.

Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Bob Strong (as Dan Dailey Jr.)
A professional golfer who has become a businessman for his fiancee helps a vagrant get a job and ends up losing his own.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1950
  • Character: Jack Moran
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1941
  • Character: Bill Pattison (as Dan Dailey, Jr.)
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

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