Howard Keel Articles

Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel in George Sidney’s Kiss Me Kate Kathryn Grayson, who died at the age of 88 last February, is Turner Classic Movies‘ Tuesday, Aug. 10, star. Kathryn Grayson Day is part of TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" August series. Grayson’s vehicles are frequently shown on TCM, so there’s nothing unusual scheduled for her day, which includes twelve of her movies. [Full schedule.] [...]

Kathryn Grayson, the soprano-voiced star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and several other MGM musicals of the 1940s and early ’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 ’40s, reportedly as a potential rival to Universal’s Deanna [...]

Doris Day, Howard Keel, Calamity Jane 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. Born Harold Clifford Leek on April 13, 1919, in Gillespie, Illinois, Keel had his name changed when he was hired by MGM in the 1940s [...]