Dolores Gray

Dolores Gray was a tall, blonde, shapely actress/singer with a big contralto voice who starred in stage and screen musicals in the 1940s and '50s. She also appeared on radio and television and in nightclubs, and, in addition to her original cast and soundtrack recordings, recorded for two major labels and scored a handful of chart entries. If she never achieved the stardom of such contemporaries as Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, she was a sturdy second-echelon talent who worked steadily, especially in the theater, from the '40s to the '80s. Gray spent her early years in Chica...