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Dick Haymes is a Actor Argentin born on 13 september 1918 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)

Dick Haymes

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Birth name Richard Benjamin Haymes
Nationality Argentine
Birth 13 september 1918 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Death 28 march 1980 (at 61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes (September 13, 1918 – March 28, 1980) was an Argentine actor and singer. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, an actor, television host, and songwriter.

Biography

Haymes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1918. His mother, whom Haymes predeceased, was Irish-born Marguerite Haymes (1894–1987), a well-known vocal coach and instructor. Dick Haymes became a vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood, on radio, and in films throughout the 1940s/1950s.

Though never achieving the immensely popular status of fellow baritone crooners like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, or Perry Como, Haymes was nonetheless just as respected for his musical ability. On September 3, 1942, Sinatra introduced Haymes on radio as Sinatra's replacement in the Tommy Dorsey band. Prior to joining Dorsey's group, Haymes sang with the Harry James orchestra.

In 1945 Haymes co-starred with Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine in the musical State Fair. He teamed with female vocalist Helen Forrest for many hit duets during World War Two, including "Together," "I'll Buy That Dream," and "Long Ago and Far Away"; he sang with Judy Garland on two Decca recordings of songs from the film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, in which he appeared with Betty Grable.

He paired repeatedly with the Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on a dozen or so Decca collaborations, including the Billboard hit "Teresa," "Great Day," "My Sin," and a 1952 rendering of the dramatic ballad "Here in My Heart," backed by the sisters and Nelson Riddle's lush strings. His duets with Patty Andrews were also well received, both on Decca vinyl and on radio's Club Fifteen with the sisters, which he hosted in 1949 and 1950. He also joined Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters for 1947 session that produced the Billboard hit "There's No Business Like Show Business," as well as "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)." His popular renditions of tender ballads such as "Little White Lies" and "Maybe It's Because" were recorded with celebrated arranger Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra and chorus.

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Filmography of Dick Haymes (23 films)

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Actor

Under Jakob's Ladder, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Jeff Stewart, Dick Haymes
Roles Thick-Neck
Rating60% 3.0063.0063.0063.0063.006
Jakob Seel (Jeff Stewart) struggles with his growing sense of worthlessness after he is dismissed from his position as a teacher in a Soviet village. A neighbor asks him to say a prayer at the funeral of her brother. He agrees, even though he knows it is illegal. But Jakob is reported and he is arrested by the secret police later that night. They take him from his daughter and granddaughter, Marta (Chloe Roe).
Real Life
Real Life (1979)
, 1h39
Directed by Albert Brooks
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about families, Films about television
Actors Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Dick Haynes, Frances Lee McCain, J. A. Preston, Dick Haymes
Roles Councilman Harris
Rating69% 3.494533.494533.494533.494533.49453
Ordinary family man Warren Yeager and his wife Jeannette are delighted to have a documentary filmmaker, Albert Brooks, choose them for a new cinematic and "scientific" experiment—he intends to capture every waking moment of their daily life on film. It is a project Brooks confidently announces to a large gathering, even greeting them with a song.
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, 1h32
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Madeline Kahn, Bruce Dern, Rintintin (acteur canin), Teri Garr, Art Carney, Phil Silvers
Roles James Crawford
Rating48% 2.408122.408122.408122.408122.40812
En 1924, Estie Del Ruth se rend à Hollywood dans l'espoir de devenir une grande actrice. Sur son chemin, elle rencontre un chien du nom de Won Ton Ton (Rintintin) qui se met à la suivre. Une fois à destination, Won Ton Ton séduit tout le monde et devient une star à la place d'Estie.
Betrayal
Betrayal (1974)
, 1h14
Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Amanda Blake, Tisha Sterling, Dick Haymes, Britt Leach, Dennis Cross, Rene Bond
Roles Harold Porter
Rating59% 2.961842.961842.961842.961842.96184
An elderly widow (Amanda Blake) hires a young woman (Tisha Sterling) as her companion. Little does she suspect that the woman and her boyfriend are criminals, who plan to make her their next victim, killing her and stealing her money.
All Ashore
All Ashore (1953)
, 1h20
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Barbara Bates, Peggy Ryan, Fay Roope, Jody Lawrance
Roles Joe Carter
Rating49% 2.479212.479212.479212.479212.47921
Three petty officers have returned from Korea on the battle cruiser USS Rochester where they are due for shore leave in California. Skip and Joe have no money due to losses in a crap game, but their shipmate Francis "Moby" Dickerson has $300 he won in poker. Skip and Joe have constantly taken advantage of Moby throughout their cruise and once again beg some money off him. Moby wishes to spend his leave on Santa Catalina but his shipmates take an unwilling Moby to an off-limits clip joint bar where bargirls and a bartender drug and rob them of all their money.
Let's Do It Again, 1h35
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, Leon Ames, Valerie Bettis, Tom Helmore
Rating57% 2.8541152.8541152.8541152.8541152.854115
Broadway philandering composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) discovers to his outrage that while he was taking a brief holiday from his marriage to Constance Stuart (Jane Wyman), she spent an evening in a "country inn" with rival composer Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). Connie points out the impropriety of Gary's own behavior with dancer Lilly Adair (Valerie Bettis), yet when he agrees with her suggestion to consult a lawyer, she is regretful, and the couple get a divorce.
St. Benny the Dip, 1h20
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland Young, Lionel Stander, Freddie Bartholomew, Oskar Karlweis
Roles Benny
Rating57% 2.855982.855982.855982.855982.85598
Benny (Dick Haymes), Monk (Lionel Stander) and Matthew (Roland Young) are three small-time crooks trying to escape a police dragnet in New York City. After hiding in a church and taking minister's suits and dog collars, they emerge, dressed as priests, and find shelter in an abandoned Bowery mission. When beat cops mistake them for real ministers sent to restore the soup kitchen, they're forced to go along with repairs, holding services and feeding the poor. They have to decide whether to stay, steal the mission money and run, or... change their lives. As with Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, when the bishop he has robbed lets him go, it's the first time they've been treated with respect and had a chance to do good work. The question is whether the police detectives or junior priests will turn them in before they even have a chance.
One Touch of Venus, 1h22
Directed by William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Eve Arden, Tom Conway, Olga San Juan, Dick Haymes
Roles Joe Grant
Rating65% 3.297663.297663.297663.297663.29766
Wealthy department-store mogul Whitfield Savory II buys a statue of Venus for $200,000. He plans to exhibit it in the store.
Up in Central Park, 1h24
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes, Vincent Price, Thurston Hall, Albert Sharpe, Moroni Olsen
Roles John Matthews
Rating60% 3.0039853.0039853.0039853.0039853.003985
In New York City in the 1870s, as the city prepares for the upcoming election, corrupt political boss William Tweed (Vincent Price) and his Tammany Hall political machine are working hard to re-elect their candidates, including Mayor Oakley (Hobart Cavanaugh), in order to continue exploiting the coffers of the city and state. The one voice opposing Boss Tweed's organization is John Matthews (Dick Haymes), a young naïve reporter for The New York Times.
Carnival in Costa Rica, 1h37
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Jeff Stephens
Rating59% 2.9551052.9551052.9551052.9551052.955105
Luisa, daughter of Rico and Elsa Molina, returns to Costa Rica from school in the United States to find that her parents have arranged for her to marry Pepe Castro, a family acquaintance whom she has never met. Pepe has also recently returned from the States, bringing with him his girl friend, Celeste, who plans to work in Costa Rica and become acquainted with Pepe's parents. When Pepe confesses he has not yet told his father about her, Celeste becomes suspicious, prompting him to tell her about the situation with Luisa. The Castros come to visit the Molinas for the formal introduction of the couple, but Pepe arrives wearing dark glasses and faking a bad cold. Once alone with Luisa, Pepe insists that he is sickly and later, at the Gran Hotel Estrada, Jeff Stephens, an American coffee buyer, learns that his evening flight has been canceled and to pass the time, takes a stroll around the plaza. During a kind of traditional flirtation promenade, Jeff meets Luisa and whisks her off to the El Sestéo nightclub, where she spots a very healthy looking Pepe dancing with Celeste. Luisa runs out of the club followed by Jeff. As it is fiesta time, they go on a Ferris wheel ride and begin to fall in love.
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, 1h25
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Revere, Gene Lockhart, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles John Pritchard
Rating63% 3.197833.197833.197833.197833.19783
Cynthia Pilgrim (Betty Grable) is the top typewriting (Typewriter) student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position with the Pritchard Shipping Company in Boston. There, she finds an office of men overseen by office manager Mr. Saxon (Gene Lockhart). When Cynthia introduces herself to company co-owner John Pritchard (Dick Haymes), he tells her he thought all expert typists were male and his policy is to hire only men. Cynthia asks for an opportunity to prove she's as efficient as her male counterparts, but John refuses and offers her train fare back to New York.
Do You Love Me, 1h31
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Gaines, Lex Barker, Betty Grable
Roles Jimmy Hale
Rating63% 3.189783.189783.189783.189783.18978
Jimmy Hale (Dick Haymes), a successful singer chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard (Maureen O'Hara), a prim, bespectacled music-school dean who, after traveling to the big city, transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady. Jimmy isn't the only one eager to win Katharine's affections: It turns out smooth-as-silk trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton (Harry James) has designs on Katharine as well,