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Dolores Gray (7 June 1924 – 26 June 2002) was a Tony Award winning Broadway actress during the 1940’s-1950’s.

During her successful music career, she sang Marilyn Monroe’s part on the Decca records soundtrack album of There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954) (Monroe herself sang on the film’s soundtrack, but she was under contract to a different company.)

In 1955, she briefly signed with MGM and appeared in such films as Kismet and It’s Always Fair Weather. Her final televised appearance was in the Doctor Who serial entitled Silver Nemesis.
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  • spidra wrote:
    September 2009
    She was a phenomenon. It's a great shame that MGM didn't know how to showcase her. Though she did plenty of work on Broadway, it's the films that would have preserved her work for future generations.

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