Kathryn Grayson
Born: 1922-02-09 in Winston-Salem - North Carolina - USA
Died: 2010-02-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2009
2003
2002
- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1992
- Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts as Self (uncredited)
1985
- That's Dancing! as From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Ideal Molloy
1983
- Mario Lanza: The American Caruso as Self
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena as Psychic Detective
1975
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1958
1956
- The Vagabond King as Catherine de Vaucelles
1953
- General Electric Theater as Julie Denton
- Kiss Me Kate as Lilli Vanessi, "Katherine"
- The Desert Song as Margot Birabeau
- So This Is Love as Grace Moore
1952
- Lovely to Look At as Stephanie
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Show Boat as Magnolia Hawks
- Grounds for Marriage as Ina Massine
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Toast of New Orleans as Suzette Micheline
1949
- That Midnight Kiss as Prudence Budell
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Kissing Bandit as Teresa
1947
- It Happened in Brooklyn as Anne Fielding
1946
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Magnolia Hawks / Kathryn Grayson
- Two Sisters from Boston as Abigail Chandler
1945
- Anchors Aweigh as Susan Abbott
- Ziegfeld Follies as Kathryn Grayson (segment "Beauty")
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943
- Thousands Cheer as Kathryn Jones
1942
- The Vanishing Virginian as Rebecca Yancey
- Rio Rita as Rita Winslow
- Seven Sweethearts as Billie Van Maaster
1941
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary as Kathryn Land