Kathryn Grayson
Biography
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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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Full filmography
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Ideal Molloy
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- Baretta (1975)
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Film '72 (1971) as Self
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
- That's Dancing! (1985) as From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Julie Denton
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Alice Kellen
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) as Magnolia Hawks / Kathryn Grayson
- Anchors Aweigh (1945) as Susan Abbott
- That's Entertainment! (1974) as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Rio Rita (1942) as Rita Winslow
- Twenty Years After (1944) as (archive footage)
- The Vagabond King (1956) as Catherine de Vaucelles
- Kiss Me Kate (1953) as Lilli Vanessi, "Katherine"
- That's Entertainment! III (1994) as (archive footage)
- Ziegfeld Follies (1945) as Kathryn Grayson (segment "Beauty")
- Show Boat (1951) as Magnolia Hawks
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) as (archive footage)
- Thousands Cheer (1943) as Kathryn Jones
- Two Sisters from Boston (1946) as Abigail Chandler
- It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) as Anne Fielding