Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986) was an American actor, singer, and television and radio host.
(1955) and Carousel (1956), and played the leading man opposite Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay (1951) and sequel By The Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).
MacRae attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York, where he was active in the Drama Club.
Winning a contest enabled him to sing at the 1939 New York World's Fair with the Harry James and Les Brown orchestras.
[2] On the radio in 1945, his talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in collaboration with the conductor Archie Bleyer.
[6] In 1946, his fifteen minute variety show Skyline Roof also featured emerging musical talent, including the accordionist John Serry Sr.[7][8][9] MacRae was also the host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology series made up of condensed versions of hit Broadway musicals.
MacRae and Day were teamed again in The West Point Story (1950) starring James Cagney and Mayo, On Moonlight Bay (1951), and the all-star Korean War tribute, Starlift (1951).
[2] MacRae was in a military school musical, About Face (1952) with Eddie Bracken, then he and Day did a sequel to On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).
[2] That same year, he starred opposite Kathryn Grayson in the third film version of The Desert Song and teamed with Jane Powell in Three Sailors and a Girl (1953).
[13] Earlier in 1958, MacRae guest-starred on the short-lived NBC variety series The Polly Bergen Show.
MacRae replaced Frank Sinatra on a radio program in 1943, but he soon had to leave for military service.