Morton Dacosta

Director

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Also Known As

Morton Tecosky

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

March 07, 1914

Died

January 29, 1989

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Filmography

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Island of Love (1963)

The Music Man (1962)

Auntie Mame (1958)

Island of Love (1963)

The Music Man (1962)

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Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Till There Was You

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Wells Fargo

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Island of Love (1963)

The Music Man (1962)

Auntie Mame (1958)

Producer (Feature Film)

Island of Love (1963)

The Music Man (1962)

Life Events

1937

Co-founded Civic Repertory Theater, Dayton

1942

Broadway acting debut in "The Skin of Our Teeth"

1949

Broadway directing debut with "She Stoops to Conquer," New York City Center

1954

First hit as Broadway director "Plain and Fancy"

1958

Film directing debut with "Auntie Mame"

1958

Honorary Doctorate from Temple University

Videos

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Till There Was You Librarian Marian (Shirley Jones) is magnanimous in her praise of huckster Professor Hill (Robert Preston), with one of composer Meredith Willson's most famous tunes from The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Wells Fargo The company starts on Meredith's Willson's tune, an interlude with Mayor and Mrs. Shinn (Paul Ford, Hermione Gingold) and Marian (Shirley Jones), and her brother Winthrop (Ronnie "Ron" Howard) getting his trumpet from Professor Hill (Robert Preston), in The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Trouble Robert Preston as fake Professor Harold Hill, introducing himself to River City, Iowa, with Meredith Willson's famous tune "with a capital T," his first big number in Warner Bros' The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Iowa Stubborn Just arrived on the train from Illinois, after an opening number confirming the disdain of other traveling salesmen for his scorched-earth methods, un-credentialed music professor Henry Hill (Robert Preston) hears from the folk of River City, Io-way about their own predisposition, in the hit Warner Bros. adaptation of the Meredith Willson musical, with Timmy Everett, and Paul Ford as the Mayor, in The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Shipoopi Buddy Hackett never played the part on Broadway, and was a regular on NBC’s Tonight Show at the time, but his one number as Marcellus, friend of the title character, is one of the more remembered and parodied from the landmark Meredith Willson musical, The Music Man, 1962, starring Robert Preston.

Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Madam Is Having Affair New York, 1928, Irish maid Norah (Connie Gilchrist) delivers Chicago orphan Patrick (Jan Handzlik), meeting Ito (Yuki Shimoda) along the way, to Rosalind Russell (her first scene, reprising her Broadway performance in the title role) in the original non-musical version of Auntie Mame, 1958.

Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Books Are Awfully Decorative Rosalind Russell (title character) cons her paid biographer O'Bannion (Robin Hughes) into taking her frump secretary Gooch (Peggy Cass) on a date, so she can receive her nervous nephew Patrick (Roger Smith) and his snooty new girlfriend Gloria (Joanna Barnes), in Auntie Mame, 1958.

Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Do The Lillian Gish Routine Rosalind Russell (title character), with actress friend Vera (Coral Browne), panics over the arrival of the banker (Fred Clark) she's been avoiding, come to check on the welfare of her orphan nephew Patrick (Jan Handzlik), in the first movie version of Auntie Mame, 1958.

Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Love C.O.D. Ruined in the stock market crash, Rosalind Russell (title character) joins the working world, causing trouble at Macy's, but meeting Beauregard (Forrest Tucker) in the process, in the 1958 non-musical version of Auntie Mame, from the top-selling novel by Patrick Dennis.

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