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Dinah Shore

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dinah Shore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Feb 29, 1916
Movie/TV Credits:
37
First Appeared:
In the movie Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943-09-25
Latest Project:
Movie Sly 2023-09-16
Known For
Poster of Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Poster of HealtH
Poster of 240-Robert
Poster of Fun and Fancy Free
Filmography
Movie Sly Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2023-09-16
Movie My Darling Vivian Self (archive footage) 2020-04-27
Movie I Am Richard Pryor Self - TV Host (archive footage) 2019-03-12
Movie Mike Wallace Is Here Self (archive footage) 2019-07-26
Movie Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Self (archive footage) 2013-04-23
Movie Alice in Wonderland Alice (voice) (archive footage) 2010-02-23
Movie The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' Self (archive footage) 1997-01-01
Movie Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special Self 1988-12-21
Movie Night of 100 Stars II Self 1985-03-10
Series Hotel Unknown 1982-08-21
Movie HealtH Dinah Shore 1980-09-12
Series 240-Robert Unknown 1979-08-28
Movie The Hollywood Clowns Self (archive footage) 1979-03-23
Movie Death Car on the Freeway Lynn Bernheimer 1979-09-24
Movie Oh, God! Herself 1977-10-07
Movie That's Entertainment, Part II (archive footage) 1976-05-16
Series Dinah and Her New Best Friends host 1976-06-05
Series Tony Orlando and Dawn Unknown 1974-12-04
Series Here's Lucy Unknown 1968-09-23
Series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Unknown 1967-09-09
Series The Steve Allen Show Unknown 1956-06-24
Series The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Self - Host 1956-10-05
Series The Chevy Show Self 1955-10-04
Series Letter to Loretta Unknown 1953-09-20
Movie Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick Josie Berry 1952-04-01
Series This Is Your Life Unknown 1952-10-01
Series The Dinah Shore Show Host 1951-11-27
Series The Colgate Comedy Hour Unknown 1950-09-10
Series The Ed Sullivan Show Unknown 1948-06-20
Movie Fun and Fancy Free Narrator (voice) 1947-09-27
Movie Make Mine Music Self (voice) 1946-06-30
Movie Two Silhouettes Music 1946-04-25
Movie Till the Clouds Roll By Una Trance / Dinah Shore 1946-12-05
Movie Up in Arms Virginia Merrill 1944-02-17
Movie Follow the Boys Dinah Shore 1944-05-05
Movie Belle of the Yukon Lettie Candless 1944-12-27
Movie Thank Your Lucky Stars Self 1943-09-25