Dolores Gray

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Dolores Gray

from the Designing Woman film trailer (1957)

Born

June 7, 1924
Chicago, Illinois

Died

May 28, 2002
New York City

Spouse(s)

Andrew Crevolin (1967 - 1992)

Awards won
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actress (br>Carnival in Flanders (1954)

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Dolores Gray (7 June 1924 – 26 June 2002) was a Tony Award winning Broadway actress during the 1940's-1950's.

During her successful music career, she sang Marilyn Monroe's part on the Decca records soundtrack album of There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) (Monroe herself sang on the film's soundtrack, but she was under contract to a different company.)

In 1955, she briefly signed with MGM and appeared in such films as Kismet and It's Always Fair Weather. Her final televised appearance was in the Doctor Who serial entitled Silver Nemesis.

Among her many stage roles, she appeared in Two on the Aisle (1951), Carnival In Flanders (1953); Destry Rides Again (1959); Sherry! (1967); and 42nd Street (1986). She also performed the lead role in Annie Get Your Gun in London (1947).

Gray earned the Tony Award for her role in Carnival in Flanders even though this Broadway musical, with a script by Preston Sturges, ran for only six performances. She therefore holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken: briefest run in a performance which still merited the prestigious Tony.

She died of a heart attack in Manhattan, aged 78.

She was known more for the stage than in films. One of her biggest regrets she recalls is, "What a gift that would be to have more of a permanent record. A stage performance is just that, then it's lost. When I see movies on TV, I think, 'How great to have that.' But why look back? The decisions I made, I made. I can't change that."

Awards
Preceded by Rosalind Russell for Wonderful Town	Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical 1954 for Carnival in Flanders	Succeeded by Mary Martin for Peter Pan