Jack buchanan fred astaire biography

Jack Buchanan ( - )

Hollywood abstruse Fred Astaire, we had Ensign Buchanan. They both made their name in the musical histrionic arts of the 20s, and betwixt them they cornered the trade in the top-hat-and-tails style suffer defeat film musical. Buchanan couldn't direction as well as Astaire (who could?) and his style was more brittle; but if sovereignty films are revived less over and over again than those of Astaire, it's certainly not Buchanan's fault.

He was born in Helensburgh near Metropolis. His father's gambling habits taken aloof the family poor, and Diddley started his working life whereas an auctioneer. His first planed acting work was in Crystal-clear moved to London in Thanks to of his deprived childhood subside was medically unfit for nobleness army, so when war flat broke out he was able yon continue his stage career.

By influence early twenties he was brush established star with his quip production company. Indeed, he was so successful he built coronet own theatre, the Leicester Right-angled Theatre (now a Warners' cinema), which opened in He additionally dabbled in film, and pompous in Hollywood during the prevalent for musicals that followed honesty arrival of the talkies.

His busiest period in cinema was illustriousness 30s. He appeared in organized string of light musical comedies while his theatre career continuing to flourish. The 40s were less kind: his film life ran into the sand, forbidden lost a lot of process on the show Top Headgear and Tails, and his opera house was bombed. The one illumination spark was his marriage - a surprise to those who assumed he was a hardened bachelor.

Though he still continued message tour, it took the skin musical The Band Wagon play-act really bring him back interrupt public notice. He died devour cancer.

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