I sang the recitative in “Nothing Like a Dame.” There was one line that Oscar Hammerstein said wasn’t working and he was going to take it away from me. So what was the lyric change? I Googled and found the answer in a 2004 interview McGuire gave to Nancy Rosati of Talkin' Broadway: Wayman Wong, on the Talkin' Broadway All That Chat message board, writes the following: > In 1949, he portrayed a radio operator in the original Broadway production of South Pacific, directed by Josh Logan and starring Mary Martin, and he even convinced Oscar Hammerstein to change a line in a song he performed, 'There Is Nothing Like a Dame.' On Sunday, Apat 5:06:49 PM UTC-4, That Derek wrote:

McGuire first appeared on television on The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre in 1950 and during his long career went on to appear on other shows including The Defenders, Gunsmoke, Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, ER and Frasier.

George Patton on stage in the one-man show Damn It Ike! and reunited with his Morning's at Seven co-star Estelle Parsons for an off-Broadway staging of Foote's The Day Emily Married in 2004. Six years later, he was in the original production of Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays, directed by Martin Ritt. In 1949, he portrayed a radio operator in the original Broadway production of South Pacific, directed by Josh Logan and starring Mary Martin, and he even convinced Oscar Hammerstein to change a line in a song he performed, 'There Is Nothing Like a Dame.' McGuire said he became interested in acting while stationed in England during World War II, and after the service, he remained overseas and appeared on stage in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. 'We had all of these big gatherings of the whole family on Saturday nights, and everybody had to do something, so that was my theater. She always had me memorizing poems,' he said in a 2004 interview. 'My mother was what you would call an elocutionist when she was quite young. He received his Tony noms in 19 for his work in his two final Broadway gigs - as Pete Davenport in Horton Foote's The Young Man From Atlanta and as Theodore Swanson in Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven. McGuire, who got his nickname from playing football, appeared in 21 Broadway productions, starting with Bright Boy in 1944. On the big screen, McGuire played the father of Sondra Locke's character in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and appeared in other films including The Phenix City Story (1955), Station Six Sahara (1963), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Paradise Lost (1971), Serpico (1973) and Midway (1976). He met the British actress when they were in a 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow on Broadway, and after they married in November of that year, they starred in the original national tour of Camelot, he as King Arthur, she as Guenevere. Survivors include his wife and frequent acting partner, Jeannie Carson. No details of his death were immediately available. He had a special gift for repose, for a commanding stillness in the midst of a play's action that magnetized an audience.' 'He was one of the most relaxed actors in performance that I have ever worked with. 'Reserved, even shy in real life, Biff gained a nearly scary confidence once he stepped on a stage,' former Seattle Rep associate artistic director Doug Hughes said. McGuire's death was announced by the Seattle Rep, for whom he performed in more than 30 productions, including Life With Father (directed by George Abbott), Saint Joan, Noises Off and A Flaw in the Ointment, starting in the 1970s. William 'Biff' McGuire, whose Broadway career spanned seven decades and included a role in the original South Pacific and Tony-nominated turns in The Young Man From Atlanta and Morning's at Seven, has died. He appeared in 'South Pacific,' 'The Young Man From Atlanta' and 'Morning's at Seven' on Broadway and in films including 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.' William 'Biff' McGuire, Two-Time Tony-Nominated Actor, Dies at 94

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