Phil Regan
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 28, 1906
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Housewife
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Go Into Your Dance
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Dames
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
In Caliente
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Three Little Words
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
What, No Men?
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
She Married a Cop
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Sweet Adeline
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
Filmography
as Himself
as Lucky Ryan
as Danny Warren
as Danny
as Clark - Composer / Vocalist
as Bill Stevens
as 'Spinner' Magee
as Jimmy Duffy
as Daniel 'Danny' Francis O'Toole
as Jerry Hart
as Pete Garland
as John L. 'Happy Jack' Cole / Bill Lyons
as Danny
as Danny O'Keefe
as Tommy Blake
as Phil Logan
as Peter
as Eddie "Teddy" Rio
as Steve - Policeman
as Michael
as Bobby Kane
as Johnny Harris
as "Mike Hathaway", Radio Singer
as Young Irishman Killed by Andrew
as Murray