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Gordon MacRae
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Actor Born: March 12, 1921 in East Orange, NJ Death: January 24, 1986 in Lincoln, NE Biography:American actor/singer "Gordon MacRae" went from winning a hometown talent contest to singing at the 1939 New York World's Fair at the age of 18. Following stage and cabaret work, MacRae was introduced to film audiences via "The Big Punch" (1948). His robust baritone obscuring his acting defiencies, MacRae became Warner Bros.' resident male songbird in the early 1950s: he was teamed several times with "Doris Day" and headlined such Technicolor musicfests as "About Face" (1952) and "The Desert Song" (1953). In 1955, MacRae was selected to play Curley in the splashy, Todd-AO film version of "Rodgers" and "Hammerstein"'s "Oklahoma!" (1955), where he set female hearts aflutter with such standards as "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'," "People Will Say We're in Love," and the title song. Though he registered well in Oklahoma, MacRae was not the first choice for Billy Bigelow in... Full Biography
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