Dinah Shore
Actor
- Born
- February 29, 1916 · Winchester, Tennessee, USA
- Died
- February 24, 1994 (age 77)
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Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
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After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, lasting from 1940 into the late '50s, and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the '50s and '60s and hosting two talk shows in the '70s. TV Guide magazine ranked her at #16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time. Stylistically, Dinah Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late '40s and early '50s, Doris Day and Patti Page.
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Known for
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- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self (archive footage)
- 2020My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)
- 2019I Am Richard Pryor as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
- 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self (archive footage)
- 2010Alice in Wonderland as Alice (voice) (archive footage)
- 1997The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time
- 1988Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special as Self
