Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore died in Beverly Hills, California of ovarian cancer. She appeared in at least one episode as herself. Rumors that she had African-American ancestry haunted her career, and caused her to lose some popularity in the U.S. South. Gloria Swanson was the favorite actor of the character Granny, from The Beverly Hillbillies. At one point, Shore had an affair with Burt Reynolds, who was 19 years younger than she. and one for television at 6301 Hollywood Blvd. After her divorce from Montgomery, she briefly married Maurice Smith. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Blvd.

She later adopted a son, Jody Montgomery. Gloria Swanson died on Easter Monday 1983, was cremated, and her ashes buried at the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York City. Shore was married to actor George Montgomery from 1943 to 1963; this produced her only natural child, Melissa Ann (known today as Melissa Montgomery-Hime, executor of the Dinah Shore Trust, and who owns the rights to most of Shore's television series). Her last acting role was in the television horror film Killer Bees in 1974, though she also appeared as herself in the movie Airport 1975 which was also released in 1974. Shore also founded one of the most prestigious golf tournaments on the LPGA tour, the Colgate/Dinah Shore Winner's Circle Golf Championship (today known as the Kraft/Nabisco Championship) in Palm Springs, California. Her last Hollywood movie was Three for Bedroom C in 1952, although she did appear in the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone. She also lent her musical voice to two Disney films, Make Mine Music (1946) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947). Swanson made it into the talkies, even singing in Music in the Air, and she hosted a television anthology series, Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson, in which she occasionally acted.

As an actress, Shore appeared in many musical films, such as Belle of the Yukon and Up in Arms (both in 1944), and Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), and in numerous TV movies and series. When Swanson starred in the 1950 Sunset Blvd., it is scenes of Queen Kelly that her character, Norma Desmond, is watching (with von Stroheim playing her butler). The producers cut to impromptu commercial and Clifton was escorted out of the studio. She was romantically linked to the elder Kennedy at the time. It was the ultimate humiliation. Kennedy. This happened live on the air to a huge TV audience. Kennedy, Sr., the father of President John F.

He took deliberate offense at her questions and eventually tipped a pan of eggs over her head. Swanson's 1929 film Queen Kelly, was directed by Erich von Stroheim and produced by Joseph P. On her show, Dinah! she once had the misfortune of interviewing Andy Kaufman in his Tony Clifton guise. She starred in the 1922 silent film Beyond the Rocks with Rudolph Valentino. She continued to appear in Chevrolet advertising through the 1950s. DeMille, and he turned her into a romantic lead. The Dinah Shore Show premiered on the NBC television network in 1951, and the sponsor's theme song ("See the USA in your Chevrolet") became the singer's signature piece. She played many Mack Sennett slapstick comedies, but in 1919 she signed with Cecil B.

She made many popular appearances entertaining members of the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Her film debut was in 1915, as an extra in The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket, but she was a star by the next year, in A Dash of Courage. She remained one of the USA's most popular singers, making regular radio broadcasts and having over 80 hit records, most in the 1940s and early 1950s. Born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in a military base in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Swedish-American father, she grew up in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Key West, Florida. She changed her name to Dinah after the title of a favorite song. Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress. After graduating she moved to New York City where she began singing and recorded with bandleader Xavier Cugat. 1929 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sadie Thompson.

She was a 1938 graduate in sociology from Vanderbilt University. 1930 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Trespasser. Despite this disability, she sometimes successfully danced before audiences. 1951 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sunset Blvd.. She was left with a shortened leg, which she always covered with long pants or a long dress. Swanson's final marriage was to William Dufty (author of Lady Sings the Blues) in 1976. Born to a Jewish family in Winchester, Tennessee, Shore was stricken with polio at 18 months, but recovered. Davy: they divorced in 1946.

She first became famous as a "girl singer" in the Big Band era, then went on to become a movie star, and television host of a series of variety programs. In 1945 Swanson married William N. Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore, February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994) was a United States singer, actress, and celebrity. Their marriage produced a daughter Michelle Bridget Farmer, and ended in divorce in 1934. In 1931, Swanson married Michael Farmer; although frequently described as a "sportsman," the only evidence of his prowess was his frequent betrothals. This marriage ended in divorce in 1930.

She conceived a child with him, and had an abortion, which she says, in her autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, she regretted. He became a film executive. Her third husband was a French aristocrat, Henry de la Falaise, Marquis de la Falaise, in 1925. Their daughter Gloria was born in 1920; they divorced in 1923.

She married Herbert K. Somborn, owner of the Brown Derby restaurant, in 1919. She married actor Wallace Beery in 1916; they divorced in 1919.