Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae was born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States on March 12th, 1921 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 64, Gordon MacRae biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986), an American actor, singer, and television show host who appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956), and played the leading man of Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay (1951) and its sequel By the Sunlight of the Silvery Moon (1953).
Early life
MacRae, a native of East Orange, Massachusetts, to Scottish parents, graduated in 1940 from Deerfield, Massachusetts, and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York, before this. Gordon MacRae was recalled from the Clan MacRae.
Personal life
He was married to Sheila MacRae from 1941 to 1967. They met on the set of a play, and it was "love at first sight." The couple were the parents of four children: actress Heather and Meredith MacRae, as well as son William Gordon MacRae and Robert Bruce MacRae. Sheila later married television producer Ronald Wayne.
Amanda Mercedes MacRae was born in 1968, MacRae's second marriage was to Elizabeth Lambert Schrafft on September 25, 1967, and the two children had one child, Amanda Mercedes MacRae. They were married until his death. For many years, he suffered with alcoholism but didn't manage to eliminate them until the late 1970s.
Career
MacRae was a baritone. He was able to perform at the 1939 New York World's Fair with the Harry James and Les Brown orchestras after winning a contest.
He made his Broadway debut in 1942 and signed his first recording contract soon after. Many of his hit songs were made with Jo Stafford.
He appeared on Junior Miss as a replacement.
His talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in 1945, together with conductor Archie Bleyer. The show featured emerging musical talent, including accordionist John Serry Sr. MacRae, the show's host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology collection made up of condensed versions of hit Broadway musicals. The services were later released on CD as well as popular studio cast albums, the majority of which have been reissued on CD.
He appeared in the revue Three to Make Ready, which ran for 326 performances in 1946.
In 1947, MacRae signed a Warner Bros. contract. He appeared in his first film, The Big Punch, a boxing drama, in 1948. Virginia Mayo, Backfire, 1949, 1950), he followed this with a film noir (made in 1948, released 1950).
'Look for the Silver Lining (1949), a biopic of Marilyn Miller (June Haver), where MacRae played Frank Carter, was MacRae's first on-screen musical. David Butler was the primary protagonist. In The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950), MacRae was reunited with Haver and Butler. In a Western, Return of the Frontiersman (1950), Warners put him in a Western. In Tee for Two (1950), a reworking of No, No. Nanette, which also for Butler, then appeared with Doris Day. The public response was enthusiastic. MacRae and Day were reunited in The West Point Story (1951), starring James Cagney and Mayo, On Moonlight Bay (1951), and the all-star Korean War tribute, Starlift (1951).
MacRae appeared in About Face (1952) with Eddie Bracken, then he and Day did a film entitled By the Sunlight of the Moon (1953). In the third film version of The Desert Song, Kathryn Grayson appeared opposite Kathryn Grayson and partnered with Jane Powell in Three Sailors and a Girl (1953). Curly in Oklahoma's big screen version was MacRae's best known film role. (1955) with Shirley Jones. He and Jones were included in another Rodgers and Hammerstein film, Carousel (1956), at 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios). For the twentieth century-Fox, MacRae played Buddy De Sylva in The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956).
MacRae appeared on television on shows such as The Ford Show and Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
He has appeared on drama shows like Lux Video Theatre.
MacRae and Ford sang "O Holy Night" during Christmas 1958. MacRae appeared on the short-lived NBC variety show The Polly Bergen Show in 1958.
He appeared in the television film The Gift of the Magi (1958). MacRae appeared on The Ed Sullivan Exhibition, The Dinah Shore Chevy Showroom, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Bell Telephone Hour followed.
He continued his musical career, often with his wife, as in the hit musical Guys and Dolls in 1964, with his wife, Miss Adeleide, playing her Broadway debut at Tempe, Arizona.
He co-hosted for a week on The Mike Douglas Show in the late 1960s. He also worked in summer sales and appeared in nightclubs.
In 1967, he replaced Robert Preston in the original Broadway revival of the musical I Do! I Do!, starring Carol Lawrence, who had taken over the role from Mary Martin.
On McCloud, a MacRae guest appeared. He appeared in the films Zero to Sixty (1978) and The Pilot (1980).