Gordon Mac Rae Bio

Albert Gordon McCray was born March 12, 1921 in East Orange, New Jersey during his early years he resided in Syracuse, New York. He spent his high school years singing and acting in the drama club where he also learned to play the piano, clarinet and the saxophone at age 19.

He entered a singing contest and won a two-week engagement at the World's Fair in New York, Performing with Harry James and Les Brown bands. In 1940 while working in New York as a page, he was discovered and hired a sing for the Horace Hight band.

After a two-year stint, he joined the Army Air Corps and worked as a navigator for the next two years. He made his Broadway debut in a show called Junior Miss. Next he appeared again on Broadway in Ray Boulders' 1946 review, Three to Make Ready, he was spotted by Capitol Records and signed to a long-term recording contract in 1947.

He stayed with the label for more than 20 years. In October 48, on ABC, he starred on the radio show, The Arare Road Hour. The show moved to NBC in October 49 and continued until June of 1954.

It presented operators and musical dramaturizations. All starring Gordon was many different leading ladies. of 1948 he was signed to a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers Pictures and soon after made his film debut in the non-musical The Big Punch 1948. Then he was featured in a string of hit musicals including five fondly remembered films with Doris Day beginning with T for two

in 1950. Perhaps his two best and well-known films were two of his last including Oklahoma in 1955, and Carousel in 1956, both written by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and both opposite-screen newcomer Shirley Jones.