RIP, Kathryn Grayson
RIP, Kathryn Grayson
#1RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:17pm
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:28pm
I was lucky enough to meet her years ago. I was putting together a benefit and she was donating some signed record albums. Now, these albums were not one's you could get at any store. She recorded them herself and gave them out as gifts to only her close friends.
I remember going to her home to pick them up. It was one of the first times I'd ever seen a gate at anyones house before.
She was so lovely and quite a beautiful woman.
Talent like hers doesn't come along all that often. She will be missed
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#2RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:34pmWhen I was a child, she came to see a production of The King and I that I was in, and my memory of her is and always will be how sweet she was to me.
#3RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:44pm
Such a talent. Who can forget her roles as the lovely Magnolia or Kate the Shrew? RIP
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#4RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 4:25pm
Can somebody PLEASE post the "After the Ball" scene from "Showboat"?
R.I.P.
#5RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:22pm
I found a nice tribute to her ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoO0JKvEMM
RIP
She was as lovely as she was talented. And such a beauty. Frequent co-star Howard Keel once called her the most beautiful woman ever filmed.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#6RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:32pm
Two of my favorites ...
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" from "Lovely to Look At"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3OxlpoIRI&feature=related
"Waltz Serenade" - great coloratura - 23 years old, from "Anchors Aweigh"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLdsE3DU-o0&feature=related
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#8RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 6:29pmI feel really terrible that I called her "Kathryn Gruesome."
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#9RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 7:31pmWhy did you call her that? I was never, ever a fan of her singing, but she was a lovely person.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#10RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 9:10pmAnd FAAAAAAAR from gruesome...
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#11RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 9:53pm
It was the vibrato...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjiOehZuqgs
But I am mightily sorry now. I called her that for 30 years or so.
I feel like a heel.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#12RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:10pm
I will forgive you, much like you and Lorna have forgiven me for those jokes I used to post about her.
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#13RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/19/10 at 5:40am
Enough! Enough of the vibrato cracks. Make it a celebration. Pour yourself a glass of wine and watch "Showboat". Or get really drunk and sing along with this...
Be My Love...
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#14RIP, Kathryn Grayson
Posted: 2/19/10 at 6:42am
so sad to find out she's gone. she was so beautiful and i loved her in kiss me kate
her version of wunderbar with howard keel is my favorite.
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