Jack Cole

Choreographer, Dance Director

About

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Birth Place

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Born

April 27, 1914

Died

February 16, 1974

Filmography

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The Case of the Stripping Wives (1966)

Designing Woman (1957)

Lydia Bailey (1952)

Let's Make Love (1960)

Music numbers staged by

Les Girls (1957)

Designing Woman (1957)

Music numbers and dances staged

Photos & Videos

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Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Villa

Les Girls (1957) -- (Movie Clip) You're Just Too Too

Family & Companions

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David Gray

Companion

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Case of the Stripping Wives (1966)

Designing Woman (1957)

Lydia Bailey (1952)

Music (Feature Film)

Let's Make Love (1960)

Music numbers staged by

Dance (Feature Film)

Les Girls (1957)

Designing Woman (1957)

Music numbers and dances staged

Three for the Show (1955)

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Dances created and staged by

Music numbers and dances staged by

River of No Return (1954)

Dance coach for Mel Ferrer

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

The I Don't Care Girl (1953)

"The Beale Street Blues," "I Don't Care" and "The Johnson Rag" staged by

Lydia Bailey (1952)

Dance seq staged by

The Merry Widow (1952)

Music numbers created and staged by

David and Bathsheba (1951)

Meet Me After the Show (1951)

Dances staged by

On the Riviera (1951)

Dances staged by

Down to Earth (1947)

Dances staged by

The Jolson Story (1947)

Dances staged by

Tonight and Every Night (1945)

Dances staged by

Cast (Special)

The Jack Cole Dancers (1939)

Life Events

Videos

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Villa Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), with his welcoming crew in lowly Marshovia caught unawares as the rich widow Radek (Lana Turner) arrives from America, Sujata his Gypsy partner, with Paul Francis Webster’s lyric to a tune (“Vilja”) from the original Franz Lehar operetta, staged by Jack Cole, produced by Joe Pasternak for MGM, in The Merry Widow, 1952.

Les Girls (1957) -- (Movie Clip) You're Just Too Too Her vocals dubbed by Betty Wand, Kay Kendall as British Sybil, in her widely praised performance opposite Gene Kelly, as a showgirl getting involved with her American song-and-dance man boss, with a Cole Porter original tune, in George Cukor's Les Girls, 1957.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Anyone Here For Love Arguably more provocative than any of co-star Marilyn Monroe's numbers, Jane Russell as Dorothy at the ship's pool with the "Olympic Team," tune by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson, dance direction by Jack Cole, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Diamonds Are A Girls's Best Friend Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei performing the famous number, by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, in the ocean liner lounge, costume by Travilla, set design by Lyle Wheeler, choreography by Jack Cole, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Squeezing A Goat Dorothy (Jane Russell) catches Ernie (Elliott Reid) taking snaps of Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) in private conversation with "Piggy" (Charles Coburn), the girls then plotting what to do, on the ship to Paris, in Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Tonight And Every Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) What Does An English Girl... Opening scene and contemporary, Jim Bannon plays the Life magazine photographer, Rita Hayworth dressed dowdy as American dancer "Rosalind," but not for long, the choreographer Jack Cole her partner, song by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, in Columbia's Tonight And Every Night, 1945.

Tonight And Every Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) I Often Dance To Him Terrific opening for Marc Platt in his first credited movie role, as Englishman "Tommy," auditioning pre-war at a London theater for "Tolly" (Florence Bates), Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair among the dancers watching, choreography by Jack Cole, in Tonight And Every Night, 1945.

Tonight And Every Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) You Excite Me Reflecting the wartime success of London's "Music Box" theater (based on the real "Windmill" theater), Rita Hayworth, choreographed by Jack Cole, tune by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, in producer-director Victor Saville's Tonight And Every Night, 1945.

Down To Earth (1947) -- (Movie Clip) People Have More Fun The earthier finale of the show, featuring Rita Hayworth (as Goddess-come-to-earth Terpsichore) and Marc Platt (as "Eddie") performing to "People Have More Fun Than Anyone," from Columbia's Down To Earth, 1947.

Down To Earth (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Swinging The Muses Jack Cole was the choreographer, Rita Hayworth the star, playing Terpsichore the goddess posing on earth as showgirl "Kitty," in a production called "Swinging The Muses," in Columbia's Down To Earth, 1947.

Companions

David Gray

Companion

Bibliography

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