Howard Keel musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Box office roller-coaster ride. Brought to Hollywood in 1948 to star in MGM’s then popular musicals, stage performer Howard Keel seemed poised to reach major stardom after the impressive international success of his first movie…
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Howard Keel, best remembered for MGM musicals such as Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, is Turner Classic Movies’ next-to-last “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Tuesday, Aug. 30, TCM will be presenting 14 Howard…
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Kathryn Grayson in George Sidney’s Kiss Me Kate, with Howard Keel. 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…
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Kathryn Grayson, the soprano-voiced star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and several other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s and early 1950s, died yesterday (Feb. 17) in her sleep at her Los Angeles home. Grayson had turned 88…