Crew

Daniel Dare

Born — Died

1905-03-20 — 1996-11-20

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Crew

Credits

8 titles

Danny Dare started as actor on the stage in New York in the 1920s and became dance director in 1929, his works include Sweet Adelaide and Crazy Quilt. He also wrote vaudeville sketches and produced them. Since 1935 he was working as choreographer in Hollywood, his best remembered work is Holiday Inn (1942). Since 1945 he was also producer.

Known for

My Favorite Brunette poster
6.6

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

My Favorite Brunette

1947

Variety Girl poster
6.5

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Variety Girl

1947

Road to Bali poster
6.2

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Road to Bali

1952

Isn't It Romantic? poster
7.7

Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.

Isn't It Romantic?

1948

Road to Rio poster
6.8

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Road to Rio

1947

Ladies' Man poster
10.0

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Ladies' Man

1947

Behind the camera

My Favorite Brunette poster
6.6

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

My Favorite Brunette

1947

Variety Girl poster
6.5

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Variety Girl

1947

Road to Bali poster
6.2

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Road to Bali

1952

Isn't It Romantic? poster
7.7

Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.

Isn't It Romantic?

1948

Road to Rio poster
6.8

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Road to Rio

1947

Ladies' Man poster
10.0

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Ladies' Man

1947

Our Hearts Were Growing Up poster
6.5

Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1946

The Main Event poster
8.0

FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.

The Main Event

1938