Grayson is best known for her portrayals of the love-struck Magnolia Hawks in Show Boat (1951) and the tempestuous Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate (1953), starring opposite big-screen baritone Howard Keel on both occasions. She also appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), singing and dancing with co-stars Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.
Later in her career, when movie musicals had largely fallen out of favor, Grayson took to the stage in productions of "La Bohème" and "Madama Butterfly," among other operas, and appeared on "Murder, She Wrote." She died Feb. 17, 2010, just after her 88th birthday.
Kiss Me KateIt's Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" set to Cole Porter's greatest score. Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel are a divorced, bickering Broadway couple who agree to star in the titular musical. They're joined by the tap-dancing Ann Miller and future Broadway choreographer (and director of the... Read More
Show BoatMarried entertainers (Ava Gardner and Robert Sterling) are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom because of the wife's mixed blood. The captain's daughter (Kathryn Grayson) and gambler Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel) take over the act, fall in love, marry and leave the boat for Chicago. There,... Read More
Anchors AweighA four-day shore leave sends sailors Joe Brady (Gene Kelly) and Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) skirt-chasing in Tinseltown, but before they even get started, they're shanghaied into returning a young runaway (Dean Stockwell) to his aspiring chanteuse aunt (Kathryn Grayson). Next thing you know,... Read More
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The Vagabond King (1956) | NR | |
Kiss Me Kate (1953) | NR | |
Show Boat (1951) | NR | |
The Toast of New Orleans (1950) | NR | |
That Midnight Kiss (1949) | NR | |
The Kissing Bandit (1948) | NR | |
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) | NR | |
Till the Clouds Roll By (1947) | NR | |
Ziegfeld Follies (1946) | NR | |
Anchors Aweigh (1945) | NR | |
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