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Dinah Shore
Highest Rated: 100% Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Lowest Rated: 58% Make Mine Music (1946)
Birthday: Feb 29, 1916
Birthplace: Winchester, Tennessee, USA
Concealing a leg crippled by childhood polio but refusing to let Hollywood correct her distinctive Southern accent, Tennessee-born Dinah Shore symbolized small-town American sweetness during World War II, as a U.S.O. songbird for lonely servicemen stationed overseas. A discovery of Eddie Cantor, Shore made her film debut alongside the radio star in Warner Brothers' wartime morale-booster "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (1943), but it was as a recording artist that she achieved true fame. A chart-topper for RCA Victor, Columbia, and Capitol Records, Shore transitioned easily from radio to live television. Between 1951 and 1992, she was rarely off the air, hosting a variety of talk shows that emphasized her front porch folksiness while making it seem as if she were every Hollywood A-lister's next-door neighbor. Quietly divorcing two husbands, including actor George Montgomery, Shore settled for single life in her fifties - a solitude broken by an extended involvement with younger man and then-reigning box office star Burt Reynolds. Though she had never so much as knocked a golf ball into a Dixie cup, Shore loaned her name and prestige to an annual tournament sponsored by the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the long-running Dinah Shore-Colgate Invitational. Poised, approachable, and serene even through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer that claimed her life in 1994, Dinah Shore remained for her legion of fans a touchstone to a more genteel America and a symbol of downhome values uncorrupted by upward mobility.
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Filmography
Movies
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Death Car on the Freeway | Lynn Bernheimer (Character) | - | 1979 |
72% |
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Oh, God! | Self | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Some of Manie's Friends | Unknown (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick | Josie Berry (Character) | - | 1952 |
73% |
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Fun and Fancy Free | Narrator | - | 1947 |
58% |
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Make Mine Music | Herself (Voice) | - | 1946 |
100% |
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Till the Clouds Roll By | Julie Sanderson (Character) | - | 1946 |
80% |
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Up in Arms | Virginia (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Belle of the Yukon | Lettie Candless (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Follow the Boys | Dinah Shore (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars | Self | - | 1943 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Emily Dyers (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Carol Burnett Show | Guest | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1970-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1956 1959 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dinah Shore Show | Host | 1959-1961 |