Kathryn Grayson, whose beauty and lilting soprano voice brightened such popular MGM musicals of the 1940s and ’50s as “Anchors Aweigh,” “Show Boat” and “Kiss Me Kate,” died in her sleep Wednesday in ...
LOS ANGELES, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Kathryn Grayson, a singer and movie star of the 1940s and 1950s best known for MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me, Kate," has died at age 88, her secretary said on Thursday.
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In the early 1940s, a young Lena Horne began an engagement at an intimate L.A. club called Little Troc, where her silken voice — with her perfect enunciation and her sophisticated interpretation of ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Ann Miller was a childhood dance prodigy who fast-tapped her way to movie stardom that peaked in 1940s musicals like ``On the Town,'' ``Easter Parade'' and ``Kiss Me Kate.'' But she ...
LOS ANGELES -- Actress Virginia O'Brien, who gained fame for her deadpan singing style in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals during the 1940s, died at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland ...
LOS ANGELES -- Ann Miller, the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 81.