His film career started in 1951 when he was featured in Rich, Young And Pretty, the first in a series of musicals with soprano Jane Powell. Other film credits included:  ‘Athena’ (1953), the Sigmund Romberg biopic ‘Deep In My Heart’ (1954), ‘Hit The Deck’ (1955). Damone also appeared in ‘The Strip’ (1951), a musical mystery melodrama, which stared Mickey Rooney, and with an all star cast of the great jazz musicians such as Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong, Earl 'Father' Hines and Barney Bigard; and a screen adaptation of the stage musical ‘Kismet’ (1955), co-starring with Howard Keel, Anne Blythe and Dolores Gray.