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Kathryn Grayson
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Actor Born: February 9, 1922 in Winston-Salem, NC Biography:Ever on the lookout for the "new Deanna Durbin", MGM talent scouts discovered coloratura soprano Kathryn Grayson while she was the teenaged vocalist on Eddie Cantor's radio program. Grayson's first film was the 1940 MGM programmer "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary", in which she was given the opportunity to sing "Lucia" and "Voices of Spring." Her first leading role was as the title character in MGM's 1942 remake of "Rio Rita"; years after the fact, Grayson would remember the kindnesses and helpfulness of her co-stars, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Grayson herself leaned towards "diva" behavior the more popular she became, but audiences were less interested in backstage intrigues and more interested in the end result of such films as "Anchors Aweigh" (1943), "The Kissing Bandit" (1948), and "The Toast of New Orleans" (1950). In many of her best films, notably "Showboat" (1951) and "Kiss Me Kate" (1953, in... Full Biography
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