Dinah Shore
Gender: Female
Born: 29th February 1916
Died: 24th February 1994
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Dinah's Place, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, Dinah and Her New Best Friends, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Dinah!, The Chey Show (1955), The Dinah Shore Show, Murder, She Wrote, Hotel
Movies: Fun and Fancy Free, Make Mine Music, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, A Great New Star, Donald's Cousin Gus, Oh, God!, Till the Clouds Roll By, Belle of the Yukon, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Harold Arlen: An All-Star Tribute, Up in Arms, Death Car on the Freeway
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She reached the height of her popularity as a recording artist during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s, but achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet.
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.
Born to Solomon and Anna Stein Shore, Jewish immigrants from Russia, young Frances Rose
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