Tap! Filmography - Louis DaPron
from Appendix B of Tap! The greatest tap dance stars and their stories, 1900-1955 by Rusty Frank, published 1990
"From the 1920s-1950s, there were very few musical films made that did not have tap dancing in some form. This appendix on "featured" tap dancers - solo, and groups."
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Louis Da Pron (1925–2003)
"From the 1920s-1950s, there were very few musical films made that did not have tap dancing in some form. This appendix on "featured" tap dancers - solo, and groups."
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Louis Da Pron (1925–2003)
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- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJack BennyGeorge BurnsGracie AllenThe employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.Louis DaPron and Eleanore Whitney
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsJack BennyGeorge BurnsGracie AllenExpecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.Louis DaPron, Johnny Downs, Eleanore Whiitney
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsShirley RossRobert CummingsMartha RayeAs a woman in a wedding gown flees town in a stolen car, Detective Dixon learns that Count de Montaigne's gift to his bride, a valuable necklace, was stolen from his wedding reception. Notorious thief "Lady Jane" is believed responsible for the crime. At a gas station, the mysterious woman meets man-about-town Michael Winslow and drops him off at his yacht club. Reporters assume that Michael has secretly married when they find a wedding gown in the woman's suitcase, and inside the club, they are introduced as husband and wife. Using the alias Belinda Hipplewaite, the woman dances with Michael in the moonlight, then flees. Meanwhile, the count, who is really a crook called Jake, arrives in search of the jewel thief and finds his stolen car. As Jake's men chase her, Belinda flees in a boat. Michael's fiancee Muriel Courtney then arrives and insists on going on his yacht "Belinda," where Michael discovers Belinda asleep. When Michael's friends come aboard and reveal his "marriage," Muriel threatens to sue for breach of promise. Meanwhile, Belinda poses as the yacht's stewardess. When Dixon boards the yacht in search of Lady Jane, Belinda identifies herself as Mrs. Winslow and she and Michael are forced to sleep in the same cabin. As they lie awake, Michael tells Belinda he doesn't love Muriel and proposes, but when he finds the necklace hidden in Belinda's room, he accuses her of stealing it. Dixon then uses the necklace as bait to get Jake on board, and Jake realizes that Muriel, a former moll, is Lady Jane. Jake admits that he was going to marry Belinda, whose real name is Toni Ainsworth, because he believed she had money. Belinda confesses that she was marrying him for the same reason, but fled the reception in order to escape a loveless marriage. After Dixon arrests Jake and Muriel, Michael and his new fiancee kiss.Louis DaPron
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsEleanore WhitneyRobert CummingsWilliam FrawleyCharles Dormant, head of the Miracle Pictures Corporation, whose motto is "If it's a good picture, it's a miracle," is convinced by his wife Consuelo to send his daughter, Sharon, who is known as Skippy, to boarding school. Skippy is displeased with her stepmother's idea, but puts on a good face for her father. Unknown to the Dormants, Wilma Chester's School for Girls is bankrupt and is about to close when Wilma's friend, Milton Shakespeare, moves in with his theatrical troupe. The actors and actresses impersonate students in the hope that Charles will attend their Thanksgiving show and give them work at the studio. Skippy refrains from entering the show, believing that her parents want her to do more scholarly work, but composer Jimmy Tuttle's romantic wooings prove too much for her. After they fall in love, she agrees to do the show, but when she wires her father to invite him to come, Consuelo responds to the wire, advising Skippy to stick to her studies, and signs Charles' name. Surprised by the coldness of the telegram, Skippy calls her father, who tells her he will be happy to come to the show. The show's title in the program is "Three Cheers For Love; a review with music, staged by Sharon Dormant." In the midst of the production, Jimmy's former girl friend, Eve Bronson, tells Skippy that she has been duped by all of them as they are not really faculty and students of the school. Although Skippy has been aware of the deception all along, she is surprised when Eve also tells her that she is marrying Jimmy that night, and that Jimmy only made love to her to get her into the show. This announcement breaks Skippy's will, and she runs out on the show and straight into her father's arms outside the auditorium. Her father insists she continue the show, and Jimmy bodily carries her backstage. During the musical-tap-fencing number, Jimmy proposes to Skippy, thus proving his love, and is happily accepted.Louis DaPron, Eleanore Whitney
- DirectorLeslie M. RoushStarsBenny BartlettDorothy LamourJoey RardinIn this entry to the Hollywood Star Reporter series (reporting only on stars with Paramount contracts or connections at the time), Ted Husing drops in on Bennie Bartlett and is surprised to find the 9-year-old kid can play the trumpet and is a songwriter but the song Bartlett sings - "The Old Fashioned Mill" - was not written by him; and then, Husing turns his attention to Dorothy Lamour's screen test and shows why Paramount cast her in the title role of the recently-released "Jungle Princess." Dorthy sings "Love Is Like a Cigarette." Husing then spends about two-and-a-half minutes watching a novelty-music entertainer named Joie Rardin, with Ben Bernie's Band, do some novelty-music entertaining. This segment of this short was edited from the television version, which is why the film version runs ten minutes and the television version (available for viewing on YouTube) only runs seven minutes and forty-nine seconds. And for a wind-up, Husing watches Vera Marshe and Louis Da Pron, recent Paramount contractees from Broadway, dance up a storm.Louis DaPron and Vera Marshall
- DirectorRoy MackStarsRed SkeltonA. RobinsThe Merry MacsWhen he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked.Louis DaPron
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsJudd McMichaelTed McMichaelJoe McMichaelJ. Roy Thomas, the head of an advertising agency, is getting headaches from trying to find a name-band for a wacky client, McKenzie, who insists on sitting in with the band. As a last resort, Thomas sends agency-employee Patricia Reynolds to Iowa to sign a little known band that features a jive-combination, The Rhythmeers. She bring them east and falls in love with the band-leader, Gabe Morgan, and his young niece Sandy. McKenzie tosses in some complications but everything is smooth before the ninth song is heard.Louis DaPron
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsBob CrosbyRuth TerryGertrude NiesenSong writer Duke Wilson and his showgirl sweetheart Lois Rogers have to keep breaking their engagement because Duke keeps losing his money playing poker...and Lois finally declares finis to the whole process. Duke and his pal, Cliff Dugan, write a new musical comedy and get wealthy playboy Bob Madison to back it, but Madison and Lois are now a romantic item , and his backing-plans includes her as the show's leading lady. Duke and Cliff and Madison are drafted, and Ruth goes along to the camp as an official hostess. Then rookie-newly-arrived Buck Private Duke takes over the U.S. Army and proposes his show be produced at the camp, with Lois as the leading lady. Then Lois finds out that Duke is not doing this just to entertain his fellow rookies, but in order to "test" the show for professional production. Lois declares this to be a selfish move on his part.Louis DaPron, +choreographer
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsJane FrazeeRobert PaigeEve ArdenA crooked night club owner tries to eliminate the competition. Introduces 'The Hut Sut Song.'Louis DaPron
- DirectorReginald Le BorgLouis DaPron
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsSonny DunhamLouis Da PronHarriet ClarkSonny Dunham and his Orchestra perform several hit songs. The entertainment is completed with acrobatics and tap dancing from Louis Da Pron, Harriet Clark, The Three Comets and Ray Kellogg.Louis DaPron
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsDick ForanIrene HerveyJoan DavisThe former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.Louis DaPron, Lorraine Kreuger
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsThe Andrews SistersRobert PaigeGrace McDonaldA song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.Patti Andrews, Dorothy Babb, Louis DaPron, Bobby Scheerer; +choreographer
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsDavid BruceGrace McDonaldLois CollierTwo lawyers fall for their beautiful client.Louis DaPron, Grace McDonald; +choreographer
- DirectorEdward C. LilleyStarsAnn BlythPeggy RyanAndy DevineBarber Joe Costello prefers to let his teenage daughter Trudy shave his customers while he plays the accordion. One day, Trudy's wealthy heiress friend, Carol Curtis, arrives at the Costello barber show and announces that Mr. Ansel of the Randall Institute of Music has agreed to audition the local kids for his private school. After the audition, Ansel agrees to offer the group ten scholarships, but informs the talented youngsters that there is still a minimum fee of twenty dollars per month. While the youngsters try to devise ways to raise the needed tuition money, Carol's snobbish spinster aunt Martha sets up trust funds for both her absentminded brother Malcolm and Carol from the family's vast real estate holdings. Meanwhile, teenagers Billy Harper and Corny Panatowski come up with the idea of opening a nightclub to raise the tuition money, and Carol offers to help them find a hall in which to house it. Learning of the youngsters' plights, Malcolm suggests that they convert the empty Curtis Hall into a nightclub, something he had been considering doing himself with band leader Freddie Slack. Knowing that his sister would never agree to such an idea, Malcolm convinces Martha that he needs the empty building as a studio for his oil painting. After a great deal of hard work, "Chez Enfants" prepares for its grand opening, but Carol is upset by the return of blonde bombshell Fern Wallace, her rival for Billy's affections. Martha then discovers Malcolm's scheme the day before the club's grand opening and orders the building evacuated. Afterward, Fern falsely accuses Carol of deliberately closing the show, and convinces Billy of as much. The next day, Malcolm pretends to be suicidal, so Martha agrees to reopen the club. When she discovers her brother's latest deception, however, she attempts to close it once again. Martha's plans are thwarted by the absentminded Malcolm, who learns that he is now fifty-two years old and, according to his parent's will, has already inherited the hall. The club is a big success, and Martha receives many mistaken congratulations from society friends who are in attendance. Malcolm is then granted his full inheritance, and Carol and Billy are finally united.Peggy Ryan, Louis DaPron; +choreographer
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsBob CrosbyFay McKenzieFuzzy KnightAs Sheriff Seth (Samuel S. Hinds) is about to arrest gang leader Squint (Joe Sawyer) for murder, he is wounded by one of Squint's many henchmen. He asks his deputy, Fuzzy (Fuzzy Knight), to send for his son Butch (Walter Sande), who he has not seen since childhood. But Butch has sent Seth a picture of his pal radio-singing star Bob Richards (Bob Crosby) in a cowboy outfit, as himself. When Butch becomes ill, he asks Bob to pose as him. Seth makes Bob a Deputy Sheriff of Elbow Bend, and Bob agrees as he has fallen for Butch's sister Caroline (Fay McKenzie). Oops. Lawyer Vance (Edward Norris) is courting Caroline and this irritates Bob, who is not her brother but she thinks he is. More oops. Bob gives Squint and his gang twenty-four hours to get out of Elbow Bend. Squint makes an attempt on Bob's life and he decides he himself better get out of town before he gets killed. Squint and his hirelings are robbing the bus station when Bob arrives and he accidentally foils the robbery, and Fuzzy and a posse round up the robbers. Before leaving the ranch Bob left a note stating that he wasn't Seth's son but Caroline reads the note before Bob can return and destroy it, having decided to stay and stop the lawlessness. Bob discovers that lawyer Vance is the real leader of the gang. Fuzzy finds the evidence and Vance tries to escape but runs into Butch and is captured. Butch, having recovered from his illness has returned to Elbow Bent to reunite himself with his father, and Bob and Caroline decide to get together.lris Adrian, Louis DaPron, Pat Starling
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsKirby GrantLois CollierEdward NorrisEntertainer siblings Patty, Bill, Hank and Johnny Davis all quit their jobs when they discover that their friend, Linda Reynolds, has secured them an audition with her boss, New York theatrical producer Charles Henry Holmes, Jr., or "Junior." Although Linda tries to schedule the audition on a day when Junior's notoriously negative assistant, Bailey, is out of the office, Bailey turns up unexpectedly during the tryout and advises Junior not to hire them. Junior, distracted by news of a lawsuit brought by from his ex-girl friend, chorus girl Irma King, is easily swayed by Bailey and, after the audition, his lawyer, Dick Ryan, encourages him to leave town for a month while the settlement is postponed. Linda, feeling guilty that the Davises are now unemployed and discouraged, allows them to stay at Junior's now empty apartment. The siblings realize that their new, swank residence will project an image of success to other producers, and begin to attend industry parties, pretending to be established musicians. One night, Dick, who has worked too late to drive all the way to his Long Island home, decides to sleep at Junior's apartment. Linda, who is there visiting, quickly hides the Davises in the closet and tells Dick she is working for Junior, but Dick soon discovers Patty in the bedroom. Linda lies that Patty is actually Irma, and Dick, anxious to help Junior avoid the legal battle, sets out to encourage her to drop the suit. Patty, pretending to be Irma, agrees to drop all charges in exchange for a chance at a singing career. Dick loves Linda but nonetheless begins to take "Irma" out each night to introduce her to theater producers. At the same time, however, he is puzzled by the attempts of Irma's lawyer, Brewster, to reach him, as he assumes that she has informed him that the suit has been dropped. When he tries to ask Patty about this one night at the apartment, she arranges for her brothers to ring the doorbells repeatedly in order to distract Dick until he forgets his question. Soon after, Dick plans a party at Junior's in order to introduce Irma to reporter Ferdy Pelham, who can advance her career. That night, Brewster finally reaches Dick and, upon hearing about the party, questions the real Irma about it. Irma, furious, attends the party at the same time that Bailey, who wants to use the apartment secretly for a poker game, arrives. Minutes later, Junior, having returned home early, also enters. Irma denounces Patty and starts a fistfight, which culminates in Junior getting knocked out. The police arrest everyone, but in prison, Dick convinces the real Irma that she could be charged with blackmail unless she drops her suit against Junior. When she does, everyone is released, and Junior, who has fallen in love with Patty, soon books the quartet into his nightclub.Louis DaPron
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDan DuryeaJune VincentPeter LorreWhen Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.Louis DaPron, Pat Starling
- DirectorWill JasonStarsFrederick BradySheila RyanPaula DrewTwo identical brothers with radically different personalities, with one involved in television. The insurance salesman brother invests money in his brother's show, and in the process of protecting his investment, woos his brother's girl.Louis DaPron
- DirectorJack HivelyStarsDonald O'ConnorOlga San JuanMartha StewartMilton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company after he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée Vivian begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The firm has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and Vivian to stay with, and help run, the carnival.Louis DaPron, Donald O'Connor, George O'Hanlon; +choreographer
- DirectorWill CowanStarsBuddy RichLouis Da PronThe Mello-LarksLouis DaPron, Buddy Rich
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsDonald O'ConnorMarjorie MainPercy KilbrideA fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.Louis DaPron, Donald O'Connor; +choreographer
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRuby KeelerOzzie NelsonHarriet NelsonA college Principal objects to a nightclub opening near his campus.++choreographer
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsKen MurrayFrances LangfordDon WilsonA DJ on radio station, who's husband is in the Army, gives her job to her twin sister, without letting anybody know about this.++choreographer
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonGlenn FordAnn MillerFederal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete.'++choreographer