Dolores Gray

Dolores Gray June 7 1924 June 26 2002 was an American stage and film actress During her successful music career she sang Marilyn Monroes part on the Decca records soundtrack album of Theres No Business Like Show Business 1954 Born as Dolores Stein to Barbara Gray and Henry Stein in Chicago Dolores Gray was briefly signed with MGM appearing in Kismet 1955 and Its Always Fair Weather1955 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 to be broken briefest run in a performance which still earned a Tony She was bestknown for her theatre roles She recalled once What a gift that would be to have more of a permanent record A stage performance is just that then its 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 cant change that On September 24 1966 Dolores Gray married Andrew J Crevolin a California businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who won the 1954 Kentucky Derby Despite erroneous reports in the media that they divorced they remained married until his passing in 1992 Description above from the Wikipedia article Dolores Gray licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia