To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, please join us in celebrating the Birthday of George Lloyd Murphy today 07/04/1902.
An Actor, tap dance Icon and National Treasure, singer and politician.
He made his movie debut in the early 1930’s when the talking pictures replaced silent movies. With almost fifty films and TV shows to his credit up until his retirement from acting in 1952, he was fifty years old.
George Murphy was famous for his roles as a song and tap dance man, he appeared in many of the big budget musicals of the time such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal.
In 1951 he was awarded an honorary Academy Award, although he was never nominated for an Oscar in any competing category.
He served from 1944 – 1946 as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and served for fifteen years on the board of directors. also as vice president of Desilu Studios from 1958 – 1961 and the Technicolor Corporation from 1961 – 1964.
He served as a United States Senator from California from 1965 -1971.
Sit back and enjoy the clip of Murphy and Shirley Temple in the song We Should Be Together from the 1938 film Little Miss Broadway.