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Kathryn Grayson (1922–2010)


Kathryn Grayson was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, NC, on February 9, 1922. This pretty, petite brunette with a heart-shaped face was discovered by MGM talent scouts while singing on the radio. The studio quickly signed her to a contract, and she was given acting lessons along and had to pose for countless publicity photos... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideActress (25 titles)
1987-1989 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)
Ideal Molloy
Town Father (1989) … Ideal Molloy
 
1978 Baretta (TV series)
Cameo
The Marker (1978) … Cameo
 
1958 Lux Playhouse (TV series)
Dr. Sally Wells
A Game of Hate (1958) … Dr. Sally Wells
 
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
Lone Woman
Lone Woman (1957) … Lone Woman
 
1957 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV series)
Guest Soprano Opera Vocalist / Hostess
Music U.S.A. (1957) … Guest Soprano Opera Vocalist / Hostess
 
1955-1956 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
Alice Kellen / Julie Denton
The Invitation (1956) … Alice Kellen
Shadow on the Heart (1955) … Julie Denton
 
1953 Kiss Me Kate
Lilli Vanessi 'Katherine'
 
1953 So This Is Love
Grace Moore
 
1951 Grounds for Marriage
Ina Massine
 
1949 That Midnight Kiss
Prudence Budell
 
1948 The Kissing Bandit
Teresa
 
1947 It Happened in Brooklyn
Anne Fielding
 
1946 Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler
 
1945 Anchors Aweigh
Susan Abbott
 
1943 Thousands Cheer
Kathryn Jones
 
1942 Seven Sweethearts
Billie Van Maaster
 
1942 Rio Rita
Rita Winslow
 
1942 The Vanishing Virginian
Rebecca Yancey
 
1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Kathryn Land
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (25 titles)
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "Make Believe" - uncredited, "Long Ago and Far Away" - uncredited)
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (performer: "'Waltz' from 'Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48'" 1880 - uncredited)
 
1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV mini-series documentary)
The Lion in Winter (1992) (performer: "Waltz Serenade" - uncredited)
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary) (performer: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" 1933 - uncredited)
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) (performer: "Be My Love" 1950 - uncredited, "Make Believe" 1927 - uncredited)
 
1956 The Vagabond King (performer: "Some Day", "Only A Rose", "Watch Out For The Devil")
 
1953 Kiss Me Kate (performer: "So in Love", "Wunderbar", "So in Love reprise", "We Open in Venice", "I Hate Men", "Kiss Me Kate reprise")
 
1953 So This Is Love (performer: "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", "Je veux vivre Juliet's Waltz Song", "Ciribiribin", "Ev'rybody Ought to Know How to Do The Tickle Toe", "Si, mi chiamo Mimi Mimi's Aria", "The Kiss Waltz", "Time on My Hands", "Ah! je ris de me voir si belle The Jewel Song", "Voi, che sapete", "Remember", "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today", "Oh Me! Oh My!")
 
1953 The Desert Song (performer: "Gay Parisienne" - uncredited, "If One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden" - uncredited, "The Desert Song" - uncredited, "Romance" - uncredited, "Long Live the Night" - uncredited)
 
1952 Lovely to Look at (performer: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - uncredited, "Lovely To Look At" - uncredited, "The Touch of Your Hand" - uncredited, "Yesterdays" - uncredited)
 
1951 Show Boat (performer: "Make Believe" - uncredited, "You Are Love" - uncredited, "Why Do I Love You?" - uncredited, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" - uncredited, "After the Ball" - uncredited / "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" - uncredited)
 
1951 Grounds for Marriage (performer: "Habañera" - uncredited)
 
1950 The Toast of New Orleans (performer: "Be My Love" - uncredited)
 
1949 That Midnight Kiss (performer: "Verrano a te sull'aura" - uncredited)
 
1948 The Kissing Bandit (performer: "Love is Where You Find It" / "What's Wrong with Me?", "If I Steal a Kiss")
 
1947 It Happened in Brooklyn (performer: "Time After Time", "The Bell Song Où va la jeune Indoue ?" - uncredited, "La ci darem la mano" - uncredited)
 
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (performer: "Show Boat", "Long Ago and Far Away" - uncredited)
 
1946 Two Sisters from Boston (performer: "There Are Two Sides to Ev'ry Girl" - uncredited, "The Firechief's Daughter" - uncredited, "Down By the Ocean" - uncredited, "Opera Sequence" - uncredited, "Take a Chance on Romance" - uncredited)
 
1945 Ziegfeld Follies (performer: "There's Beauty Ev'rywhere")
 
1945 Anchors Aweigh (performer: "Jealousy Jalousie" - uncredited, "All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings" - uncredited, "Waltz Serenade" - uncredited)
 
1943 Thousands Cheer (performer: "Let There Be Music" 1943, "Sempre libera" from the opera "La traviata" 1853, "Daybreak" 1942, "Three Letters in the Mail Box" 1943, "United Nations on the March" 1943 / "I Dug a Ditch" 1943)
 
1942 Seven Sweethearts (performer: "Tulip Time" 1942, "Mozart's Cradle Song", "You and the Waltz and I" 1942, "Little Tingle Tangle Toes" 1942, "Je suis Titania" from the opera "Mignon" 1866 / "We Gather Together")
 
1942 The Vanishing Virginian (performer: "Steal Away" - uncredited, "The World Was Made for You" 1942 - uncredited, "In the Evening by the Moonlight" - uncredited, "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" 1902 - uncredited)
 
1942 Rio Rita (performer: "The Ranger's Song" 1927, "Long Before You Came Along" 1942, "Ombres Légères" "Shadow Song" / 1859 - uncredited)
 
1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (performer: "The Voices of Spring Voci di primavera", "The Mad Scene" aria fron "Lucia di Lammermoor", "I've Got My Eyes On You")
 
Show ShowSelf (26 titles)
2004 Biography (TV series documentary)
Herself
Ava Gardner: Another Touch of Venus (2004) … Herself
Louis B. Mayer (2004) … Herself
 
2004 The Masters Behind the Musicals (video documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot (video documentary short)
Herself - 'Kate/Lilli' ("Kiss Me Kate")
 
1994 Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (TV movie)
Herself
 
1994 A Century of Cinema (documentary)
Herself
 
1992 Nelson and Jeanette (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1986 The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Performer
 
1985 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1984 Looks Familiar (TV series)
Herself - Guest
Episode #13.4 (1984) … Herself - Guest
 
1983 Mario Lanza: The American Caruso (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1978 Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena (TV special)
Herself
 
1976 The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena (documentary)
Psychic Detective
 
1972-1973 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 4 January 1973 (1973) … Herself
Episode dated 7 December 1972 (1972) … Herself
 
1965 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.6 (1965) … Herself
 
1960-1961 Showtime (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.19 (1961) … Herself
Episode #2.13 (1960) … Herself
 
1956-1959 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 11 April 1959 (1959) … Herself
Episode dated 6 October 1956 (1956) … Herself
 
1958 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #12.11 (1958) … Herself
 
1958 The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.4 (1958) … Herself
 
1958 What's My Line? (TV series)
Herself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 20 July 1958 (1958) … Herself - Mystery Guest
 
1958 The Bob Crosby Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.4 (1958) … Herself
 
1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 1 May 1956 (1956) … Herself
 
1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1949 The 21th Annual Academy Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Presenter: Best Music Awards
 
1946 The 18th Annual Academy Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Performer
 
1945 Ziegfeld Follies
Herself in 'Beauty'
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (10 titles)
2010 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - In Memoriam
 
2010 Cinema 3 (TV series)
 
2004 Love Find Andy Hardy Intro (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2002 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Classified X (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1997 Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (TV documentary short)
Katherine in 'Kiss Me Kate'
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Performer in Clip from 'Anchors Aweigh' (uncredited)
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary)
Clip from 'Lovely to Look At'
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary)
Clips from 1951 version of 'Show Boat' and 'Toast of New Orleans'
 
1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1948) Print ads: Magazine ads for Chemcraft dinettes

Publicity Listings:

7 Articles  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site | See more »

Height:

5' 2" (1.57 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Good friend of Ava Gardner. See more »

Nickname:

Graysie See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius