Good lord… those shoes!
I’ll always remember her in the ’51 version of “Show Boat” with Howard Keel. A good match-up.
She had a sincere cuteness about her and the camera always liked her.
R.I.P. Kathryn, and thank you for everything you gave us.
I think Grayson is terrific in “Kiss Me, Kate.”
Kate’s final line in which she pledges to obey, his said with a touch of sarcasm, that belies what she is saying. As a kid I saw this pix when it was released. Years later, when I saw it in a revival house, I couldn’t believe it got in the film. This is in a 1953 MGM musical. Feminist liberation if I’ve ever seen and heard it. I always loved her singing, but I love her for this subversive moment. Of course, this is the reading Shakespeare intended.
“I am ashamed that women are so.” Yeah, right on Kathryn.
Dennis Brian
“Murder, She Wrote” …. Ideal Molloy (3 episodes, 1987-1989)
– Town Father (1989) TV episode …. Ideal Molloy
– The Sins of Castle Cove (1989) TV episode …. Ideal Molloy
– If It’s Thursday, It Must Be Beverly (1987) TV episode …. Ideal Molloy
“Baretta” …. Cameo (1 episode, 1978)
“Lux Playhouse” …. Dr. Sally Wells (1 episode, 1958)
“Playhouse 90” …. Lone Woman (1 episode, 1957)
“General Electric Theater” …. Alice Kellen / … (2 episodes, 1955-1956)
The Vagabond King (1956) …. Catherine de Vaucelles
Kiss Me Kate (1953) …. Lilli Vanessi ‘Katharine’
So This Is Love (1953) …. Grace Moore
… aka The Grace Moore Story (UK)
The Desert Song (1953) …. Margot Birabeau
Lovely to Look at (1952) …. Stephanie
Show Boat (1951) …. Magnolia Hawks
Grounds for Marriage (1951) …. Ina Massine
The Toast of New Orleans (1950) …. Suzette Micheline
That Midnight Kiss (1949) …. Prudence Budell
The Kissing Bandit (1948) …. Teresa
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) …. Anne Fielding
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) …. Magnolia Hawks (segment “Show Boat”) / Herself
Two Sisters from Boston (1946) …. Abigail Chandler
Anchors Aweigh (1945) …. Susan Abbott
Thousands Cheer (1943) …. Kathryn Jones
Seven Sweethearts (1942) …. Billie Van Maaster
… aka Tulip Time
Rio Rita (1942) …. Rita Winslow
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) …. Rebecca Yancey
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941) …. Kathryn Land
She was wonderful in Anchors Away and The Kissing Bandit. She was a musical star of old Hollywood, she could sing and always seemed elegant (how many actresses could you say that about today?)