Highest rated movie: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Lowest rated movie: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
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Looking for reviews of Dick Haymes movies? Cinafilm has a total of 204 reviews across 6 movies.
Movies starring Dick Haymes have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Mutiny on the Bounty - released in 1935 - is Dick Haymes's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 170 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dick Haymes is Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood - released in 1976 - with a score of 47% based on 4 reviews.
Arguably one of the best singers of the twentieth century, Dick Haymes was born in Argentina to a Scots/Irish father and Irish mother, but brought to the U.S. as an infant. Dick inherited his vocal gift from his mother who made ends meet during the Depression as a singer and voice teacher. A music gig in 1931 caught the eye of a local band leader and soon Dick was moving up, but it was slow-going. In 1939, while Dick was trying to pitch his songwriting talents to band leader Harry James, he ended up his featured vocalist, instead. During the war years Dick hooked up with the Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey orchestras before deciding to go solo. Nabbing his own radio program in addition to a Decca recording contract, Twentieth Century Fox soon expressed interest in his musical talents. Among his many film leads were State Fair (1945) opposite Jeanne Crain and Vivian Blaine, Diamond Horseshoe (1945) and The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) both paired with Betty Grable, One Touch of Venus (1948) with Ava Gardner, and All Ashore (1953), a second string version of On the Town (1949), with Mickey Rooney and Ray McDonald as his shore-leave buddies. For such a pleasant and unassuming man, Dick's personal life certainly was a shambles aggravated by alcoholism and financial debt. Five marriages came and went (including actresses Joanne Dru, Nora Eddington, Rita Hayworth, and Fran Jeffries) before his sixth one finally stuck. By the 1960s, his life was all but ruined. He managed to travel to Europe and picked up the remnants of his career. His reputation had not tarnished there, and he enjoyed some renewed popularity; he never regained, however, the foothold in the business that he once had. Dick died of lung cancer in 1980. Though not as well remembered as other crooners of his time (Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, Vic Damone), and not a particularly charismatic performer on film, this rich baritone's legacy IS his music. Some of Dick's more popular recordings include "The More I See You," "How Blue the Night," "For You, For Me, Forever More," "Speak Low," and "Another Night Like This.
Dick Haymes has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Phil Silvers, Aldo Ray and Gloria DeHaven.
Dick Haymes has worked with these film directors: William A. Seiter, Michael Winner, Frank Lloyd and Roy Del Ruth.
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