Which famous people have you outlived?

Dinah Shore

Singer/Actor

Died when: 77 years 361 days (935 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore;February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.

She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era.She achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own.

She became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success.She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning 1940–1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television.

She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s.TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time.

Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page.


Related People

Roy Rogers
Singer/Actor
Julie London
Singer/Actor
Rosemary Clooney
Singer/Actor
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License