RIP, Kathryn Grayson

[madbrian]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:17pm

RIP

[TheatreDiva90016]

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

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:34pm

When 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.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:44pm

Such a talent. Who can forget her roles as the lovely Magnolia or Kate the Shrew? RIP

[Mrs Mangel]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 4:25pm

Can somebody PLEASE post the "After the Ball" scene from "Showboat"?
R.I.P.

[best12bars]

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.

[best12bars]

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

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:41pm

I always loved her.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 6:29pm

I feel really terrible that I called her "Kathryn Gruesome."

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 7:31pm

Why did you call her that? I was never, ever a fan of her singing, but she was a lovely person.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 9:10pm

And FAAAAAAAR from gruesome...

[PalJoey]

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]

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.

[Mrs Mangel]

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]

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.