As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

MGM years
From London's West End Keel ended up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer making his film musical debut as Frank Butler in the movie version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun (1950). He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. In 1947 Oklahoma! became the first American postwar musical to travel to London England and Keel joined the production.

Harold Clifford Keel (April 13 1919 – November 7 2004) known professionally as Howard Keel was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991 as Clayton Farlow opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character but to an earlier generation he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made with a rich bass-baritone singing voice.