Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson ( born: Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick, born February 9, 1922 in Winston- Salem, North Carolina, † February 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress and singer.
Life
The soprano Kathryn Grayson was discovered in the late 1930s by an MGM talent scout when she sang in the radio show of Eddie Cantor. After a few minor roles, including the classic talent of Andy Hardy series, which also Ava Gardner, Lana Turner and Esther Williams completed her performances, she was already popular by the 1942 film Seven Sweethearts. The sentimental streak about a widower with seven daughters, was the first production by Joe Pasternak, after Louis B. Mayer had poached him from Universal.
Grayson, who had a pleasant soprano and was considered by the standard of time as pretty, soon became a sought-after actress in lavishly produced musicals. In the Revue Till the Clouds Roll Bye she sang Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which, however, provoked unpleasant comparisons to interpretations by Alice Faye and Irene Dunne. The highlight of her career, she reached beside Howard Keel in the film version of Show Boat opulent from the year 1951., You made two films with Mario Lanza. A third project with the American tenor and actor but she refused because she complained of Lanza's loutish behavior on the set.
1953, she was way to see both as Grace Moore in the autobiography This Is Love as well as the lead actress in the taken up in 3 -D film version of Kiss Me Kate, again with Howard Keel as a partner. With the decline of the musical mid-decade career also Grayson was finished. She joined in the following years successfully in nightclubs and worked on television with. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remembers it.