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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Howard Keel</title>
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		<title>MGM Actress Kathryn Grayson Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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 Kathryn Grayson, the soprano-voiced star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and several other MGM musicals of the 1940s and early &#8217;50s, died yesterday (Feb. 17) in her sleep at her Los Angeles home. Grayson had turned 88 on Feb. 9.
An aspiring opera singer, Grayson became an MGM contract player in the early &#8217;40s, reportedly as a potential rival to Universal&#8217;s Deanna Durbin. Usually, the pretty, bosomy brunette didn&#8217;t have much to do on screen whenever she wasn&#8217;t belting out songs &#8212; except, of course,  look pretty and bosomy. The exceptions to that rule were two George Sidney-directed early &#8217;50s adaptations of Broadway musicals: Show Boat (1951,  photo) and Kiss Me Kate (1953). 
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		<title>Howard Keel</title>
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Actor Howard Keel, best known for his MGM musicals of the 1950s, died on November 7 in Palm Desert, in Southern California. Keel, who had been suffering from colon cancer, was 85 years old.
He was born in 1919 in Gillespie, Illinois, as Harold Clifford Leek, but had his name changed when he was hired by MGM in the 1940s following a stint in Broadway musicals. The studio&#8217;s own musicals were then at the height of their popularity and prestige, and Keel was set to start at the top: playing opposite Judy Garland (as Annie Oakley) in Annie Get Your Gun. Garland eventually dropped out, being replaced by Betty Hutton (borrowed from Paramount), but Keel remained the leading man in what [...]]]></description>
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