Kathryn Grayson
Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick was an American actress and coloratura soprano. She was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by the early 1940s. Her performance in the film Her By The Clouds By Roll was the fifth-highest grossing film of 1945.
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Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick was an American actress and coloratura soprano. From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 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, Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate. When film musical production declined, she worked in theatre, appearing in Camelot. Later in the decade she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata. She appeared in three films in 1942: The Vanishing Virginian, Rio Rita and Seven Sweethearts. Grayson did not appear in any films for nearly two years, but instead worked at entertaining troops during the war. She made guest appearances in Ziegfeld Follies and Till the Clouds Roll By. Her performance in the film Her By The Clouds By Roll was the fifth-highest grossing film of 1945, earning over 4.79 million USD. She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1998.
She is survived by her husband, Robert Hedrick, and two sons. She had two brothers, Clarence and Harold Hedrick. She also had a sister, Frances Raeburn, who was also an actress and singer, appearing alongside her in the films Seven Sweet hearts and An American Symphony with Judy Garland. Grayson had two sons, Clarence \”Bud\” E. Hedrick and Harold. Grayson was born on February 9, 1922, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of four children of Charles Hedrick,. a building contractor-realtor, and Lillian Hedrick. Lillian was of Siberian, Native American and English descent, and Charles was of German, Siberian, Hungarian and Polish descent. The Hedrick family later moved to Kirkwood, Missouri, where Grayson was discovered singing on the empty stage of the St. Louis Municipal Opera House by a janitor, who introduced her to Frances Marshall of the Chicago Civic Opera. In 1940, an MGM talent scout saw Grayson performing at a music festival, and she made her first film appearance in Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary as the character’s secretary Kathryn Land.
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