
Kathryn Grayson
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday9 February 1922
Died17 February 2010 (age 88)
Place of birthWinston-Salem - North Carolina - USA
Known credits41
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 work…

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009 · Self (archive)
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot
2003 · Self

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002 · Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
1992 · Self (uncredited)

That's Dancing!
1985 · From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Ideal Molloy

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
1983 · Self

The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
1976 · Psychic Detective

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)

Baretta
1975

That's Entertainment!
1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Self (archive footage)
Film '72
1971 · Self

The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Bob Crosby Show
1958

The Vagabond King
1956 · Catherine de Vaucelles

Kiss Me Kate
1953 · Lilli Vanessi, "Katherine"

So This Is Love
1953 · Grace Moore

The Desert Song
1953 · Margot Birabeau

General Electric Theater
1953 · Julie Denton

General Electric Theater
1953 · Alice Kellen

Lovely to Look At
1952 · Stephanie

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Show Boat
1951 · Magnolia Hawks

Grounds for Marriage
1951 · Ina Massine

The Toast of New Orleans
1950 · Suzette Micheline

What's My Line?
1950 · Self

That Midnight Kiss
1949 · Prudence Budell

The Kissing Bandit
1948 · Teresa

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self

It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Anne Fielding

Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Magnolia Hawks / Kathryn Grayson

Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · Abigail Chandler

Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · Kathryn Grayson (segment "Beauty")

Anchors Aweigh
1945 · Susan Abbott

Twenty Years After
1944 · (archive footage)

Thousands Cheer
1943 · Kathryn Jones

Seven Sweethearts
1942 · Billie Van Maaster

Rio Rita
1942 · Rita Winslow

The Vanishing Virginian
1942 · Rebecca Yancey

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941 · Kathryn Land
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