Dan dailey iii biography

The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd, Anthony Newley called it, and after the final curtain call of “The Odd Couple,” backstage, all Dan Dailey wanted to do was get out of his makeup and into a dressing gown.

This night was to be an occasion, the birthday of Joe Jamrog, an understudy who had just played Murray the Cop, and there was a pot of coffee and a birthday cake in one of the dressing rooms.

After he had washed and turned on a portable television set and taken a sip from a bourbon-and-water mixed by Nat Wilson, his valet, Dailey came out of his dressing room for the birthday party.

The Sinatra Lady was out there again tonight,” Elliott Reid, his co-star, said.

“What Sinatra Lady?” someone asked.

“The Sinatra Lady who comes about every six weeks,” Dailey said.

“We kid ourselves it’s the same lady, but actually it’s not. Anyway, in the third act, I have a line, ‘What goes better with London broi