Jack Donohue

Director

About

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Also Known As

John Francis Donohue, Jack Donahue

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

November 03, 1908

Died

March 27, 1984

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Filmography

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Assault on a Queen (1966)

Marriage on the Rocks (1965)

Babes in Toyland (1961)

Lucky Me (1954)

Watch the Birdie (1951)

The Yellow Cab Man (1950)

Photos & Videos

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Assault On A Queen -- (Movie Clip) She Walks Well

Watch The Birdie (1951) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Little Overdeveloped

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Assault on a Queen (1966)

Marriage on the Rocks (1965)

Babes in Toyland (1961)

Lucky Me (1954)

Watch the Birdie (1951)

The Yellow Cab Man (1950)

Close-Up (1948)

Lost in a Harem (1944)

Music prod Director by

Cast (Feature Film)

Win, Place or Steal (1975)

Smiling Along (1939)

Our Little Girl (1935)

Vaudeville actor

Writer (Feature Film)

Close-Up (1948)

Additional Dialogue

Dance (Feature Film)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Music numbers staged and Director

Duchess of Idaho (1950)

Music numbers staged and Director by

Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Music numbers created and Director by

Madame Bovary (1949)

On an Island with You (1948)

Dances and water ballets created by

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Music numbers staged and Director by

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

Folkdances staged by

Easy to Wed (1946)

Music numbers staged and Director by

Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Bathing Beauty (1944)

The Canterville Ghost (1944)

Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Meet the People (1944)

Girl Crazy (1943)

Star Spangled Rhythm (1943)

No Time for Love (1943)

The Powers Girl (1943)

Dance numbers conceived and staged by

Salute for Three (1943)

Dances staged by

Best Foot Forward (1943)

The Fleet's In (1942)

Dances staged by

Sleepytime Gal (1942)

Priorities on Parade (1942)

Dances staged by

Lucky Legs (1942)

Smiling Along (1939)

The Gaiety Girls (1938)

Captain January (1936)

Dances staged by

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Dressed to Thrill (1935)

Curly Top (1935)

Life Begins at 40 (1935)

Music Is Magic (1935)

Lottery Lover (1935)

George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

Music in the Air (1934)

Director (Special)

The Music Mart (1980)

Lucy Moves to NBC (1980)

A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Dean Martin (1975)

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974)

City vs. Country (1971)

Andy Griffith's Uptown-Downtown Show (1967)

The Many Sides of Mickey Rooney (1960)

The Red Skelton Revue (1954)

Producer (Special)

Lucy Moves to NBC (1980)

The Many Sides of Mickey Rooney (1960)

The Red Skelton Revue (1954)

Life Events

1927

Began career as chorus boy for "Ziegfeld Follies"

1934

First film as dance director

1948

First film as director

Videos

Assault On A Queen -- (Movie Clip) She Walks Well Grizzled boatmen Mark (Frank Sinatra) and Linc (Errol John) receive huckster Rossiter (Tony Franciosa) and girlfriend Rosa (Virna Lisi), who had a deep-sea diver die while working for them, early in Assault On A Queen, 1966.

Watch The Birdie (1951) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Little Overdeveloped Red Skelton here appears as Rusty Cameron and as his own dad, partners in their struggling camera shop, not realizing Lucia (Arlene Dahl), who rescued him from a recent aquatic mishap, is behind their sudden up-tick in business, in MGM’s Watch The Birdie, 1951.

Watch The Birdie (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Christen You Destroyer Star Red Skelton is a camera shop owner who’s about to go under so he’s inspired to try freelance newsreel camera work, with a couple of fumbles before he meets Arlene Dahl as affluent Lucia, Leon Ames her skeptical counselor, early in MGM’s Watch The Birdie, 1951.

Watch The Birdie (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Lucky Vista Red Skelton as rookie newsreel cameraman Rusty is shooting the ground-breaking for the Lucky Vista housing project, also playing his own Grand-Dad, where Ann Miller is the pageant winner, Pam Britton a dignitary, Arlene Dahl a financier and romantic prospect, in Watch The Birdie, 1951.

Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Deadwood Stage Full throttle opening, original tune by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Chubby Johnson is the driver and Howard Keel appears as Wild Bill but all are spectators to the star, Doris Day in the title role in the 1953 Warner Bros. hit Calamity Jane.

Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do Without You Doris Day (title character), with saloon owner Miller (Paul Harvey) and maybe-boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), laments having promised to bring a big-time singer to Deadwood, inducing another original by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, in Calamity Jane, 1953.

Babes In Toyland (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Can't Do The Sum The solo number by Annette Funicello as “Mary Contrary,” lamenting her finances, the song by George Bruns and Mel Leven, Eustace Lycett and Robert A. Mattey credited for special effects, in Walt Disney’s Babes In Toyland, 1961.

Babes In Toyland (1961) -- (Movie Clip) The One And Only Mother Goose! First Sylvester the goose, voice by director Jack Donohue, Mary McCarty as Mother Goose, then the chorus with the first song adapted by George Bruns from the 1903 opera, with new lyrics by Mel Leven, choreography by Tom Mahoney, the leads not yet seen, in Disney’s Babes In Toyland , 1961.

Babes In Toyland (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Does This Satisfy Your Greed? We meet Ray Bolger in his wild turn as villain Barnaby, observing the innocent Mary and Tom (Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands), with henchmen (Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon), some technical dazzle, and the top of another song by George Bruns and Mel Leven, in Disney’s Babes In Toyland , 1961.

Anchors Aweigh (1945) -- (Movie Clip) We Hate To Leave Brady and Doolittle (lifelong pals Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, in their first movie together), just decorated and granted leave from their ship in Los Angeles, launching their first Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number, in MGM's Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Curly Top (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Animal Crackers Shirley Temple as Elizabeth, nick-named “Curly Top,” her sister (Rochelle Hudson) at the piano, performs the movie’s hit tune (by Ray Henderson, Ted Koehler and Irving Caesar) for the kids at the orphanage, the trustees (led by mean Etienne Girardot) intruding, early in Curly Top, 1935.

Neptune's Daughter (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Happy Ending, Too Eighty plus minutes in, finally the big swim scene, Esther Williams introduced by Xavier Cugat, joined by Ricardo Montalban and Keenan Wynn signing off, from producer Jack Cummings at MGM, in Neptune's Daughter, 1949.

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