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Dolores Gray
Spotlight on Dolores Gray
Sepia Recordings
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Tony Martin, Dorothy Lamour, Lorna Luft, Jane Russell, Dolores Gray
Stairway to the Stars (Original 1989 London Cast)
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Irving Berlin, Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor
There's No Business Like Show Business: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande
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Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Two on the Aisle (1951 Original Broadway Cast)
Decca Broadway
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Dolores Gray
Singer, Actress
(1924 - 2002)
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Dolores Gray was introduced on radio at the age of 15 by Rudy Vallee. She made her Broadway debut in Seven Lively Arts (1944) and was in the UK production of Annie Get Your Gun (1945) for three years. She appeared on several TV variety shows in 1952 and in 1953 won a Tony for Carnival in Flanders in which she introduced “Here’s That Rainy Day.” After dubbing Marilyn Monroe on the soundtrack album* of There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), she appeared in three MGM films, It’s Always Fair Weather (1955), Kismet (1955), and The Opposite Sex (1956) for which she also sang the title tune over the credits. She made her last film, Designing Woman, in 1957. In 1973 she returned to the UK to appear in Gypsy and in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies in 1987. *Marilyn Monroe’s voice on the Decca soundtrack album was replaced because Monroe’s voice was under contract with another record company.
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