Don Ameche

Gypsy Rose Lee and Don Ameche in Norman Taurog’s musical for 20th Century Fox ‘You Can’t Have Everything’ (1937), also starring Alice Faye. Actor Don Ameche also appeared in Henry King’s musical salute to Irving Berlin ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’ (1938), also starring Alice Faye, Ethel Merman, and Jack Haley, Mitchell Leisen’s screwball comedy ‘Midnight’ (1939), also starring Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, John Barrymore, and John Barrymore’s wife Elaine Barrie, and written by Billy Wilder, Irving Cummings’ biographical movie ‘The Story of Alexander Graham Bell’ (1939), also starring Loretta Young and Henry Fonda, Irving Cummings’ musical ‘Down Argentine Way’ (1940), also starring Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, and The Nicholas Brothers, and Walter Lang’s musical ‘Moon Over Miami’ (1941), also starring Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carol Landis, Jack Haley, and Charlotte Greenwood. Decades later he appeared in John Landis’ comedy ‘Trading Places’ (1983), also starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, and in Ron Howard’s science fiction dramedy ‘Cocoon’ (1985), also starring Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, and Gwen Verdon. Don Ameche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in this movie. Remembering Don Ameche (31st May, 1908 - 6th December, 1993).