Kathryn Grayson

Kathryn Grayson

Nacimiento : 1922-02-09, Winston-Salem - North Carolina - USA

Muerte : 2010-02-17

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kathryn Grayson  (February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010) was an American actress and operatic soprano singer. From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals. After several supporting roles, she was a lead performer in such films as Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat (1951) and Kiss Me Kate (1953) (both with Howard Keel). When film musical production declined, she worked in theatre, appearing in Camelot (1962–1964). Later in the decade she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.

Perfil

Kathryn Grayson

Películas

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Self (archive footage)
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and developed different cinematique techniques, such as brilliantly shot dancing sequences.
Érase una vez en Hollywood III
(archive footage)
El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
Self (uncredited)
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.
¡Esto sí es bailar!
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Self
Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
Psychic Detective
Documentary exploring such phenomena as astral projection, telekinesis, telepathy, voices from beyond the grave, ghosts/spirits, etc.
Hollywood, Hollywood
(archive footage)
Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
Érase una vez en Hollywood
(archive footage)
La Metro Goldwyn Mayer celebró su 50º aniversario haciendo una recopilación de sus mejores clásicos musicales y entrevistando a sus protagonistas.
El rey vagabundo
Catherine de Vaucelles
El poeta rebelde Francois Villon (Oreste) enamora a la sobrina (Kathryn Grayson) de Luis XI y salva al rey en París.
Bésame, Kate
Lilli Vanessi / Katherine "Kate"
Los esfuerzos de una pequeña compañía de musicales para poner en escena una versión de 'La fierecilla domada' de Shakespeare quedan en suspense hasta el día del estreno, en el que las vidas de los actores se entrecruzarán con las de los personajes de ficción.
Cumbres doradas
Grace Moore
La cantante estadounidense Grace Moore, a punto de debutar en el Metropolitan Opera House de Nueva York, recuerda sentada en su camerino el largo camino que ha tenido que recorrer hasta esta primera noche de éxito absoluto. Por su memoria van pasando los primeros años de su infancia, cuando su tía Laura logró convencer a su padre, el severo coronel Moore, para que la mandara a Washington a estudiar canto. Biopic de la gran soprano Grace Moore, cuya magnífica carrera operística se vio truncada prematuramente por su muerte en un accidente aéreo.
The Desert Song
Margot Birabeau
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
El amor nació en París
Stephanie
Tres amigos con apuros económicos pretenden producir un musical en Broadway. Afortunadamente, uno de ellos hereda una casa de modas en París, donde acaban montando una espectacular revista de modelos. (FILMAFFINITY
Magnolia
Magnolia Hawks
Tercera versión de Hollywood del "fenómeno Broadway" y de las vidas y amores de unos coloridos personajes a bordo de un barco-teatro en el río Mississippi a principios del siglo XX.
Grounds for Marriage
Ina Massine
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
Las redes del amor
Suzette Micheline
Suzette Micheline, una famosa cantante de ópera, llega a un pueblo de los pantanos de Louisiana, y allí conoce a Pepe Abellard Duvalle, un pescador que resulta tener una gran voz. Ella se enfada con él por su comportamiento algo rudo, pero el director Jacques Riboudeaux, ex amante de Suzette, ve en Pepe un gran talento y le invita a viajar a Nueva Orleans para que cante en su ópera. (filmaffinit)
That Midnight Kiss
Prudence Budell
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
The Kissing Bandit
Teresa
A Ricardo le gusta la vida tranquila de su Boston natal. Pero, en contra de sus deseos, su familia prefiere que siga los pasos de su padre y se convierta en un bandolero.
It Happened in Brooklyn
Anne Fielding
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.
Hasta que las nubes pasen
Magnolia Hawks / Kathryn Grayson
Biografía del compositor Jerome Kern a través de distintos números musicales, que van recreando su trayectoria profesional desde sus duros inicios en Nueva York, hasta su triunfo en 1927.
Dos hermanas de Boston
Abigail Chandler
Dos muchachas de Boston deciden trasladarse a Nueva York. Una de ellas trabaja como cantante en el local de un viejo amigo de la familia, mientras que la otra se enamora del hijo de un importante mecenas de la ópera.
Ziegfeld Follies
Kathryn Grayson
Comedia musical dirigida, escrita y protagonizada por diversos directores, guionistas y estrellas de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Levando anclas
Susan Abbott
Gene Kelly y Frank Sinatra son dos marineros de personalidades opuestas: uno (Sinatra) es tímido y un tanto ingenuo, mientras que el otro (Kelly) es un hombre de mundo. Ambos vivirán mil peripecias en la ciudad de Los Ángeles
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
El desfile de las estrellas
Kathryn Jones
El joven Eddy (Gene Kelly) intenta montar un espectáculo musical y en el proceso se enamora de la bella Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson), la hija de un coronel.
Seven Sweethearts
Billie Van Maaster
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Rio Rita
Rita Winslow
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
The Vanishing Virginian
Rebecca Yancey
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Kathryn Land
Andy Hardy está a punto de graduarse en el instituto, y se cree un tipo muy importante, de modo que contrata a una secretaria. Ésta y su novia le ayudarán a superar el examen de inglés.