Actor “The Best Foot Fart”, the singer had 101

Tommy Dix, who acting as a young cadet of military school opposite Lucille Ball in the MGM 1943 music comedy Best foot forward After appearing in the original Broadway, he died. He was 101 years old.

Dix, from Williamsburg, Virginia, died January 15, his family announced. “He was, for those who knew him well, a living relationship with some great American figures of the 20th century. He’ll miss him,” they said.

Dix was a popular baritone on the network radio and just made his debut in Broadway The corn is greenActs Ethel Barrymore, when he is engaged to play cadet Chuck Green in Best foot forwarddirected by George Abbott and choreographed Gene Kelly.

The Broadway musical, who worshiped in October 1940 and ran for 326 appearances, played Rosemary Lane as the Hollywood star Gale Joy, who accepts the Van-Plum invitation from the Winsocki Bud Hooper Military Academy (Gil Stratton) in Philadelphia his date on Junior graduation.

Buddow Girl, Helen (Maureen Cannon) is not happy, and she depins the quarrel on the dance while Dix comes out of the Rosing Fight song “Button, Winsocki.”

When mgm turned it into a movie It contained Harry James and his musicians, Dix went to the role of Hooper along with other players who return June Allyson and Nancy Walker. Ball, playing herself, took Lane’s role, and Virginia Weidler portrayed Helen.

Dix has to re -perform “Buckle Down, Winsocki” and participate in another song, “Three men at a meeting.”

In his review in New York TimesBosley Crowther noted that Dix “a little exaggerated but very fun as an unhappy hero.”

Born in New York on December 6, 1923, Thomas Paine Navard had serious health questions while raised by his single mom Ana.

Inspired after seeing Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy performing “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life” in the 1935 -AD film Naughty MariettaHe started singing in the neighborhood and became known as “Bariton Boys of the Bower.”

In the late 1930s, Dix performed on NBC and CBS radio shows including Main amateur watch Boweswhich often called him back, and he sang for the audition of the metropolitan opera from the air when he was only 15 years old.

He is the winner of the four -year scholarship at Manhattan High School of Music and Art, and offered him a scholarship at the Julliard School of Music.

In 1940, Dix performed his original composition “Marsh Dimes”, which he dedicated to a charity organization, after which Sara Roosevelt, his mother, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, visited him to Kudelisje to offer her congratulations.

Also that year, he arrived at Broadway – and sang in Welcho – as a member The corn is green ensemble.

Dix entered the US army in 1943 and appeared in uniform to help sell war bonds worth three million dollars in the south of the United States, when he was not able to serve him in the field.

After World War II, he performed at nightclubs and hotels across the country and signed a contract with Coronet Records, but soon had enough show business. He accepted his job at Lumberyard his mother-in-law at Birmingham in Alabama, and eventually became Vice-Company’s vice-president while acquiring a collaborative diploma from architectural engineering at the University of Alabama.

Dix was later involved in real estate and construction in Joppatowne, Maryland, and Sarasota, Florida, before receiving in 1986.

Married four times (twice of the same woman), Dix survived his “dear”, Catherine; his son Grayon; grandson; And several nephews, nephews and relatives.