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Singing sweet nothings to Julie London in the Warner film, "Return Of The Frontiersman." Cordon admits his singing is neither intimate nor swoony and can't understand what it is that bowls over the gals.
Below: ' There's a genuine wholesomeness, a sly sense of humor, a modest engagingness about Cordon who absolutely refuses to take himself too seriously. Life to him is continuously an amusingly challenging affair.
Cordon and wife Sheila. They have three children. The MacRaes' way of living doesn't follow the Hollywood pattern.
'"You've got to be grateful when you reflect that 50,000,000 people are looking at your kisser. I've got to think of ray future as a song-pelter. I just like to get out there and sing. Oh, I've been treated all right in Hollywood. Have no gripes at all. But I don't want my career as a singer to be limited to Hollywood."
Radio programs, recordings, personal stage appearances— all are a big part of Gordon MacRae's life now. He wants to expand these outlets, so firm, so fully packed with opportunity and opulence. To him, a singer — and he is a singer, primarily — is only as good as his pipes. A singer's pipes have a way of wearing out. Hence, the emphasis on the old injunction: Seize the day, time is of the essence. Back in 1946. he reminds you, he piped and pelted and belted songs to the tune of $100,000. Not bad for a young fellow of twentynine.
"You know something," he said, warbling snatches of Irving Berlin's "Show Business" — he makes a habit of singing and humming off stage or off the set — "I don't think there'd be anything more wonderful for me, say about four years from now, than to be starring on Broadway in a Rodgers-Hammerstein musical."
"The young Pinza, eh?" it was suggested.
"I don't know about that," he chuckled, "but, say, the show might be called 'North Atlantic' "
Is Gordon MacRae destiny's boy? Could be. He seems on the verge of hitting a home run with the bases loaded. He even gives off the air of a top-class athlete who somehow has strayed into the entertainment world for the fun of it. His singing, he admits, is neither intimate nor swoony. Yet, he bowls 'em over, men and women alike. He has. to get down to (Please turn to page 66)
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