Kathryn Grayson

She was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 for her performance as a blind girl in General Electric Theater's Shadow On The Heart.. Accompanying the film is music from a recording called "Holiday in Brazil." In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. She left the movies in 1956 for the stage and fulfilled her dream of being in opera. When Cornell screened the film, he projected it through a piece of blue glass and slowed the speed of projection to that of a silent film. She also played Magnolia in the 1951 version of Show Boat. The piece consists of snippets from East of Borneo combined with shots from a documentary of an eclipse. Some consider her role as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate as her best. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her.

She started out with dreams of being in opera, but MGM scooped her up to be in films. Rose Hobart (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film East of Borneo into one of American's most famous surrealist short films. The petite soprano was one of MGM Studios' top sopranos of the 1940s & 1950s. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003. She has one daughter. Memoir of an Art Gallery. She married twice, first to actor John Shelton, second to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston. Julian Levy.

Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. Deborah Solomon.