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Dinah Shore(1916-1994)

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  • Music Department
  • Soundtrack
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Dinah Shore Circa 1960
Here's Lucy: Someone's On The Ski Lift With Dinah
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Someone's on the Ski Lift with Dinah (1971)
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Her real name was Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore, and she was born in Winchester, Tennessee. Stricken with polio at 18 months of age, she recovered after receiving the Sister Kenny treatment. She became a cheerleader at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville and went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 1938, where she majored in sociology. She took voice and acting lessons on the side and sang on radio station WSM in Nashville. In 1938 she left Tennessee for New York City and began singing on radio station WNCW in New York. Her first recordings were with bandleader Xavier Cugat, and she later changed her named to Dinah after her success with the song of the same name. She received numerous Emmy awards for television specials and productions and appeared in many films. She was married to actor George Montgomery, with whom she had one daughter and adopted a son.
BornFebruary 29, 1916
DiedFebruary 24, 1994(77)
BornFebruary 29, 1916
DiedFebruary 24, 1994(77)
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  • Won 6 Primetime Emmys

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Norman Lear, Bea Arthur, Bob Barker, and Dinah Shore in Dinah! (1974)
Bob Burns, William Marshall, and Dinah Shore in Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Dinah Shore
John Denver, Carl Reiner, and Dinah Shore in Oh, God! (1977)
Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, and Dinah Shore in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
"Dinah Shore Show, The" Dinah Shore with 'The Golddiggers' on the set, c. 1970
"Merv Griffin Show, The" Merv Griffin, Dinah Shore, Steve Lawrence c. 1969
June Allyson, Hedda Hopper, and Dinah Shore
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Dinah Shore circa 1959
Teddy Pendergrass on "The Dinah Shore Show" with Susan Anton, McLean Stevenson and Vicki Lawrence
Burt Reynolds and Dinah Shore 1974 ©1978 David Sutton
Dinah Shore c. 1967

Known for

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
8.1
TV Series
  • Soundtrack("When You're Smiling", "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella", "The Man I Love", "Everybody's Doin' It", "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love", "Let's Fall in Love", "Control Yourself", "Fly Me to the Moon", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Lazy Afternoon", "If I Had My Druthers", "Just in Time", "I'll Get By", "You Made Me Love You", "Empty Pockets Filled with Love")
Randolph Scott, Bob Burns, Jane Hale, Gypsy Rose Lee, Wanda McKay, Dinah Shore, and Charles Winninger in Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Belle of the Yukon
5.2
  • Lettie Candless
  • 1944
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Flags of Our Fathers
7.1
  • Soundtrack("I'll Walk Alone")
  • 2006
Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha
7.3
  • Soundtrack("Three Little Sisters" (1942))
  • 2005

Credits

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Actress

  • Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)
    Murder, She Wrote
  • Anne Baxter, James Brolin, and Connie Sellecca in Hotel (1983)
    Hotel
  • HealtH (1980)
    HealtH
  • Joanna Cassidy, Mark Harmon, and John Bennett Perry in 240-Robert (1979)
    240-Robert
  • Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, and Linda Lavin in Alice (1976)
    Alice
  • Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
    Death Car on the Freeway
  • Oh, God! (1977)
    Oh, God!
  • The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
    The Carol Burnett Show
  • Dinah and Her New Best Friends
  • Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
    Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
  • Here's Lucy (1968)
    Here's Lucy
  • Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (aka Rowan & Martin) 1975
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  • The Little Engine That Could
  • George Montgomery in Cimarron City (1958)
    Cimarron City
    • (uncredited)
  • Angela Cartwright, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson, Marjorie Lord, and Danny Thomas in The Danny Thomas Show (1953)
    The Danny Thomas Show

Music Department

  • Make Mine Music (1946)
    Make Mine Music
    • (uncredited)

Soundtrack

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
    • (uncredited)
  • Yves Montand entre en scène (2021)
    Yves Montand entre en scène
  • Barry Levinson and Ben Foster in The Survivor (2021)
    The Survivor
  • Them (2021)
    Them
  • Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller: Deux couples à Hollywood (2020)
    Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller: Deux couples à Hollywood
  • American Horror Story (2011)
    American Horror Story
  • Colman Domingo and Lennie James in Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
    Fear the Walking Dead
    • (uncredited)
  • Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, and Nina Dobrev in The Vampire Diaries (2009)
    The Vampire Diaries
    • (uncredited)
  • Bryony Hannah, Helen George, and Jessica Raine in Call the Midwife (2012)
    Call the Midwife
    • (uncredited)
  • Storyville (1997)
    Storyville
  • L.A. Noire (2011)
    L.A. Noire
  • Mafia II (2010)
    Mafia II
    • (uncredited)
  • Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
    Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
  • Cold Case (2003)
    Cold Case
  • Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009)
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
    • (uncredited)

Videos3

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Here's Lucy: Someone's On The Ski Lift With Dinah
Trailer 2:12
Here's Lucy: Someone's On The Ski Lift With Dinah

Personal details

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    • Official page on Last.fm
    • Official page on Spotify
    • February 29, 1916
    • Winchester, Tennessee, USA
    • February 24, 1994
    • Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(ovarian cancer)
    • May 26, 1963 - 1964 (divorced)
  • Other works
    TV commercial (w/Pat Boone): Chevrolet automobiles.
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Article
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    She had a long love affair with Burt Reynolds, who was 20 years younger than she was.
  • Quotes
    [on Bing Crosby] Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
    • Theme song: "See the U.S.A. (in Your Chevrolet)"
    • Up in Arms
      (1944)
      $25,000

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