Dinah Shore

Age: 77 (passed away Feb. 24th, 1994)
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Birth Place: Winchester, Tennessee, USA
Born: Feb. 29th, 1916

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Dinah Shore's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters	Dinah Shore
Make Room for Daddy	Dinah Shore
Sammy and Company	Dinah Shore

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Her real name was Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore, and she was born in Winchester, Tennessee. Stricken with polio at 18 months of age, she recovered after receiving the Sister Kenny treatment. She became a cheerleader at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville and went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 1938, where she majored in sociology. She took voice and acting lessons on the side and sang on radio station WSM in Nashville. In 1938 she left Tennessee for New York City and began singing on radio station WNCW in New York. Her first recordings were with bandleader Xavier Cugat, and she later changed her named to Dinah after her success with the song of the same name. She received numerous Emmy awards for television specials and productions and appeared in many films. She was married to actor George Montgomery (I), with whom she had one daughter and adopted a son.

TRIVIA:

Lived in a one story house in Mission Hills Country Club, located in Rancho Mirage, California. Was also good friends with all of her neighbors. Among them were Donald Donovan and Geraldine Donovan.
Took the professional name Dinah after the title of a favorite song.
Dinah Shore Drive is named for her. It spans the cities of Rancho Mirage and Cathedral City (near Palm Springs) California.
Her ex-husband, 'George Montgomery (I)' (qv), and her two children were with her when she died.
Per 1920/1930 census records, her parents were Russian-born Jews. Her father was a prosperous dry goods merchant in Tennessee.
Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1994.
Although she was not an original member of the cast of "Call Me Madam", she sang all the 'Ethel Merman' (qv) songs on the original cast recording when Decca Records refused to release Ms. Merman from her contract to record the soundtrack for RCA.
Half of her ashes are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cathedral City (near Palm Springs), California. The other half are interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.

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