Kathryn Grayson
Birthday: 1922-02-09
Place of Birth: Winston-Salem - North Carolina - USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010) was an American actress and operatic soprano singer. From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals. After several supporting roles, she was a lead performer in such films as Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat (1951) and Kiss Me Kate (1953) (both with Howard Keel). When film musical production declined, she worked in theatre, appearing in Camelot (1962–1964). Later in the decade she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.
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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vinta...
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Kiss Me Kate
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of ...
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Lovely to Look At
Broadway producers Tony Naylor, Al Marsh, and Jerry Ralby are having difficulty securing funds for t...
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Ziegfeld Follies
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his gr...
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Thousands Cheer
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the ...
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
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Show Boat
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Anchors Aweigh
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs fro...
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It Happened in Brooklyn
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Whe...
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The Toast of New Orleans
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c...
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Rio Rita
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican bord...
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That Midnight Kiss
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Seven Sweethearts
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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The Kissing Bandit
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the ...
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The Desert Song
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing ...
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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The Vanishing Virginian
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does h...
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Grounds for Marriage
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett....
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The Vagabond King
Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight agains...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot
Ann Miller hosts this documentary short on the making of the MGM-Cole Porter hot musical "Kiss Me Ka...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
Documentary exploring such phenomena as astral projection, telekinesis, telepathy, voices from beyon...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he forme...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team....
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with...
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