the Riviera, after Liberace was the featured headliner. In her autobiography Hold the Roses (2002), Rose Marie wrote that "Jeff Chandler was a great guy, but he was no singer. He put together an act and we opened at the Riviera. He came with a conductor, piano player, light man, press agent, and manager. None of it helped, and everybody raved about Jeff's singing, but let's face it: He really didn't sing very well. He definitely had guts to open in Vegas". He left to work on a movie after three and a half weeks. A May 1955 review of a Chandler live performance in Variety said "it is in the realm of pure song" that Chandler "falters and shows weakness." Album discography Singles discography Award nominations TheatreThe Trojan Horse – Oct 1940 – Long IslandMeet the World by Peg Fenwick – March 30, 1950 – a UNESCO-sponsored play about the United Nations at UCLANewsbeat 1950 by Joseph Roos – March 1950 – one-off performance for Federation of Jewish Welfare OrganisationsPageant of Stars – October 11, 1950 Box office rankings For a number of years, film exhibitors voted Chandler among the top stars at the box office. 1952 – 22nd (US) 1953 – 18th (US) 1954 – 16th (US) 1955 – 20th (US), 7th (UK) 1956 – 18th (US), 5th (UK) 1957 – 22nd (US), 6th (UK) Further reading Hoffmann, Henryk. "A" Western Filmmakers. McFarland & Co., 2000. Kirk, Marilyn. Jeff Chandler. 1st Books Library/AuthorHouse, 2003. Marie, Rose. Hold the Roses. University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Wells, Jeff. Jeff Chandler: Film, Record, Radio, Television and Theater Performances. McFarland & Co., 2005. Williams, Esther. The Million Dollar Mermaid''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. References External links Jeff Chandler as Cochise in Broken Arrow (1951 radio version) 1918 births 1961 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American singers American male film actors American male radio actors Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery California Democrats Deaths from bleeding Erasmus Hall High School alumni Jewish American male actors Liberty Records artists Male Western (genre) film actors Male actors from New York City Medical malpractice New York (state) Democrats Universal Pictures contract players 20th-century American Jews Decca Records artists