He was best known for his appearances with Susan Hayward in With a Song in My Heart (1952), Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), and Marilyn Monroe in Niagara (1953).
Richard Mann Allan was born on June 22, 1923, in Jacksonville, Illinois, as the youngest child and son of the four children of Edna Mann (1893–1973), a dietitian, and Robert Howard Allan (1895–1958), a farmer.
[3] His most remembered appearance was as Susan Hayward's dancing partner in Walter Lang's musical directed With a Song in My Heart (1952) and as Marilyn Monroe's lover Patrick in Henry Hathaway's noir directed Niagara (1953).
[1] Allan died in Louisville, Kentucky, due to lung cancer at the age of 76.
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