Kiss Me Kate Articles

William Holden, Robert Duvall, Peter Finch in Sidney Lumet’s Network Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Ava Gardner, John Wayne, Boris Karloff, Bette Davis, Burt Reynolds, Faye Dunaway, Robert Ryan, Grant Williams, Miss Piggy, and the recently deceased Kathryn Grayson. Murder, madness, mayhem, mutants, muppets, satanists, and singers. All that and more will be offered movie fans in the March film series at the [...]

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 [...]

Film and stage actor Keith Andes died at his home in Santa Clarita, a community northeast of Los Angeles, on November 11. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office ruled the death a suicide by asphyxiation. Andes had been suffering from bladder cancer and other ailments. He was 85. Born John Charles Andes on July 12, 1920, in Ocean City, New Jersey, Andes was brought to [...]

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 [...]