Howard Keel

Actor Howard Keel, best known for his MGM musicals of the 1950s, died on November 7 in Palm Desert, in Southern California. Keel, who had been suffering from colon cancer, was 85 years old.
He was born in 1919 in Gillespie, Illinois, as Harold Clifford Leek, but had his name changed when he was hired by MGM in the 1940s following a stint in Broadway musicals. The studio’s own musicals were then at the height of their popularity and prestige, and Keel was set to start at the top: playing opposite Judy Garland (as Annie Oakley) in Annie Get Your Gun. Garland eventually dropped out, being replaced by Betty Hutton (borrowed from Paramount), but Keel remained the leading man in what [...]

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