Hollywood Songstress Kathryn Grayson Vintage 1945 Anchors Aweigh Photograph


Hollywood Songstress Kathryn Grayson Vintage 1945 Anchors Aweigh Photograph

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Hollywood Songstress Kathryn Grayson Vintage 1945 Anchors Aweigh Photograph:
$13.03


Thanks to all our buyers! We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin-up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changed assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great items. All sell !ITEM: This is a vintage & original M-G-M publicity photograph of singer and actress Kathryn Grayson. A trained opera singer, Grayson established a career working mainly in musicals. After several supporting roles she started to land leading parts. One such part was opposite Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh(1945), for which this stunning glamour portrait was used to publicize. A gorgeous photo of the songstress by Eric Carpenter.The press snipe reads: \"STREAMLINED SONGBIRD ... Curvaceous Kathryn Grayson, easy on the ears as well as the eyes, sings five new melodies for her current Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor starrer, \'Anchors Aweigh.\' In this musical, which co-stars Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, North Carolina born Kathryn plays a Hollywood extra girl whose voice wins her screen game. It becomes, in effect, a real life drama. Kathryn was an unknown struggling fo recognition in movietown until a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive heard her on a broadcast and signed her to long term film contract.\"Measures 8\" x 10\" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Typed studio text on verso.CONDITION: This vintage, silver gelatin, classic Hollywood photograph is in fine condition with mild storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Grayson was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, NC, on February 9, 1922. This pretty, petite brunette with a heart-shaped face was discovered by MGM talent scouts while singing on the radio. The studio quickly signed her to a contract, and she was given acting lessons along and had to pose for countless publicity photos. Kathryn, a coloratura soprano, made her first film in 1941, a \"B\" picture called Andy Hardy\'s Private Secretary (1941). She soon was cast opposite some of MGM\'s top musical stars of the 1940s, such as Gene Kelly and Mario Lanza. She was paired with Lanza a few times, but the two never got along due mostly to Lanza\'s hot temper and alcohol abuse. The pairing of Lanza and Grayson would never match the success of lyrical soprano Jeanette MacDonald and baritone Nelson Eddy, although Kathryn and MacDonald did become great friends. Jeanette became a mentor and an older sister figure for Kathryn.Grayson\'s most memorable roles came in the early 1950s. They were Show Boat (1951), where she played \"Magnolia\", opposite Ava Gardner and Howard Keel; Kiss Me Kate (1953), playing actress \"Lilli Vanessi\", who portrayed \"Katherine\" in the movie\'s \"show within a show\", a musical version of \"The Taming of the Shrew\". In 1953 she exited MGM, then made only one more film, The Vagabond King (1956), at Paramount. She later worked in nightclubs and on stage.- IMDb Mini Biography By: A.

Hollywood Songstress Kathryn Grayson Vintage 1945 Anchors Aweigh Photograph:
$13.03

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