Dan Dailey (1915 –1978) was an American dancer and Oscar®-nominated actor. He is best remembered for a series of popular musicals he made at 20th Century Fox. His IMDb page shows 66 acting credits from 1940 to 1977. This page will rank 31 Dan Dailey movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information. The following table only includes his movies that we were able to find a box office number on…we will continue to search for more Dailey movies.
Dan Dailey Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Dan Dailey movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Dan Dailey movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Dan Dailey movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Dan Dailey movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Dan Dailey movie received.
- Sort Dan Dailey movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
HI BRUCE Welcome to your page on this entertainer of more lighthearted times in the cinema. As you suggest his forte was the musical, and when that genre declined his career followed suit. In his heyday however he was in 19th position in 1949 and ranked 21st in 1950 in the Quigley Popularity polls.
As your table demonstrates he was a frequent co-star of the 1940s box office Queen, forces pin-up Bette Grable [ah, if only Myrna had been a singer!].“The Animal” who was obsessed with Betty and tricked himself into imagining he was dancing with her in one enormously funny scene in Golden Holden’s Stalag 17 would certainly have envied Dan Dailey!
Anyway a hearty Lensman “Vote Up” for this nice summary of the career of a performer who remains a nostalgic part of my early days as a moviegoer, that nostalgia being helped by the fact that in the 1950 Ticket to Tomahawk top-billed Dan had the support of my own B movies cowboy icon Rory Calhoun shortly before Rory seriously took to westerns. As is often the case our resident Classic era whizz kid Flora has provided some useful information to supplement yours.
Of course unlike her I’m a big fan of The Duke [says Bob in an understatement!] and Wings of Eagles was big hit with me and indeed is the last Dan Dailey film I can recall seeing though Dan was in a supporting role in that one to Wayne’s portrayal of real life Navy hero Commander Frank “Spig” Wead– but what performer didn’t play 2nd fiddle in a Wayne film apart from maybe another big idol of mine Jimmy Stewart in Liberty Valance! Anyway good profiling from you.
Glad to see you are back full time, Bob. I enjoy reading your posts and Lensman reviews. Thanks for the compliment.
Always nice to hear from you Flora. You should know that by now.
Hey Bob
1. Good to read your thoughts on Mr. Dailey.
2. Just making those polls is a pretty good accomplishment….and being in and near the Top 20 is even more impressive.
3. Interesting about Ticket To Tomahawk and Rory Calhoun…..I imagine those westerns were huge events in your childhood.
4. I liked Wings of Eagles….but it is far from my favorite Wayne movie…..I think the relationship between Wayne and O’Hara was the main reason I did not like that…..their screen chemistry was awesome…and yet that movie managed to ignore that chemistry.
5. Yep…not many knocked Wayne from the Top Billing spot.
Good feedback!