Dolores Gray was born on Sylvia Dolores Finkelstein; June 7,1924 – June 26,2002 and was an American actress and singer.
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13 Facts About Dolores Gray
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Dolores Gray was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice, winning once.
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Dolores Gray had an older brother, Richard Gray was born on Richard Vernon, and who had a career in Hollywood.
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Dolores Gray was discovered by Rudy Vallee, who gave her a guest spot on his nationwide radio show.
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Dolores Gray's career commenced as a cabaret artist in restaurants and supper clubs in San Francisco, and in Reno, Nevada.
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Dolores Gray appeared at the London Palladium in 1958 while doing a concert tour of Europe and in cabaret at The Talk of the Town in February 1963.
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Dolores Gray performed the lead role in Annie Get Your Gun in its first London production.
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Dolores Gray won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her role in Carnival in Flanders, even though this Broadway musical, with a script by Preston Sturges, ran for only six performances.
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Dolores Gray therefore holds a record that is unlikely to be broken: briefest run in a performance which still earned a Tony.
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Dolores Gray is the first person to have sung the English version of the French song “C'est si bon”, for the short film Holiday in Paris: Paris directed by John Nasht.
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Theatre critic Michael Phillips wrote that Dolores Gray's voice sounded like “a freight-train slathered in honey.
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Apart from the many soundtrack albums she appeared on, Dolores Gray recorded one album of songs in 1957 for Capitol Records with the title Warm Brandy.
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On September 24,1966, Dolores Gray married Andrew J Crevolin, a California businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who won the 1954 Kentucky Derby.
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