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Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore, February 29,
1916 – February 24, 1994) was an United
States|American singer, actor|actress and talk
show host. She first became famous as a "girl
singer" during the Big Band era, then went on to
become a movie star. She is best known as the host
of a long-running series of popular television|TV
variety programs.

Born to a Jewish family in Winchester, Tennessee,
Shore was stricken with polio at 18 months, but
recovered. She was left with a shortened leg,
which she always covered with long pants or a long
dress.  Despite this disability, she sometimes
successfully danced before audiences. She was a
1938 graduate in sociology from Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee. After
graduation she moved to New York City, where she
began singing. She recorded with bandleader Xavier
Cugat and eventually changed her name to Dinah
after the title of a favorite song.

Shore remained one of the most popular singers in
the United States, making regular radio broadcasts
and having over 80 hits gramophone record|records,
most of them in the 1940s and early 1950s. Shore
made many popular appearances entertaining members
of the United States Armed Forces during World War
II, for which she was awarded the USO Medallion.

The Dinah Shore Show premiered on the NBC
television network in 1951 and ran (with a title
change) through 1963. The sponsor's theme song
("See the USA in your Chevrolet") became the
singer's signature piece.  She continued to appear
in Chevrolet advertising through the 1950s. 

From 1970 through 1980, Shore hosted one of the
first TV talk shows, variously named Dinah!,
Dinah's Place and Dinah and Friends. On her show
Dinah!, she once had the misfortune of
interviewing the comedian Andy Kaufman in his Tony
Clifton guise. He took deliberate offense at her
questions and eventually tipped a pan of eggs over
her head. This happened live on the air to a huge
TV audience and Shore's producers cut to impromptu
commercial as Kaufman was escorted out of the
studio.

As an actress, Shore appeared in many musical
films, such as Belle of the Yukon and Up in Arms
(both in 1944 in film|1944), and Till the Clouds
Roll By (1946 in film|1946). She was also featured
in numerous TV movies and series.  She lent her
musical voice to two Walt Disney|Disney films:
Make Mine Music (1946 in film|1946) and Fun and
Fancy Free (1947 in film|1947).

Shore founded one of the most prestigious golf
tournaments on the LPGA tour, the
Colgate-Palmolive|Colgate/Dinah Shore Winner's
Circle Golf Championship (now the Kraft Nabisco
Championship) in Rancho Mirage, California.

Shore was married to actor George Letz|George
Montgomery from 1943 to 1962; this produced her
only child, Melissa Ann (known today as Melissa
Montgomery-Hime, executor of the Dinah Shore Trust
and the owner of the rights to most of Shore's
television series).  Shore  later adopted a son,
Jody Montgomery. After her divorce from
Montgomery, she briefly married Maurice Smith. In
the early 1970s, Shore had a relationship with the
actor Burt Reynolds, who was 19 years younger than
she. Rumors that she had African-American ancestry
haunted her career, and caused her to lose some
popularity in the U.S. South during the early
1960s. Yet Shore was always identified with the
South, and guests on her variety shows commented
on it often.

Shore won nine Emmys, a Peabody Award and a Golden
Globe.

Dinah Shore died in Beverly Hills, California, of
ovarian cancer.

==Major Recordings==

*"Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Duet with Buddy Clark)
*"Blues in the Night"
*"Buttons and Bows"
*"Chantez, Chantez"
*"Dear Hearts and Gentle People" (also done by
Bing Crosby)
*"The Gypsy" (also done by The Ink Spots)
*"I'll Walk Alone"
*"It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House"
*"Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside"

==Filmography==
*Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
*Up in Arms (1944)
*Follow the Boys (1944)
*Belle of the Yukon (1944)
*Make Mine Music (1946) (voice)
*Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
*Fun and Fancy Free (1947) (voice)
*Bongo (1947) (short subject) (voice)
*Aaron Slick from Punkin Creek (1952)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars on Parade
(1954) (short subjects)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Small Fry (1956)
(short subject)
*Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959)
(documentary)
*Oh, God! (1977) (Cameo)
*HealtH (1980) (Cameo)

==TV Work==
*The Dinah Shore Show (1951-1956)
*The Dinah Shore-Chevy Show (1956-1963)
*Dinah's Place (1970-1974)
*Hold That Pose (1971) (canceled after a few
weeks)
*Dinah Shore: In Search of the Ideal Man (1973)
*Dinah! (1974-1980)
*Dinah and Her New Best Friends (1976) (canceled
after 8 weeks)
*Conversations with Dinah (1989-1991)


== External links ==
* http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0794918/ IMDB listing
*
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/shoredin
ah/shoredinah.htm Bio on museum.tv

*http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/s/dinah/dinah_
shore.htm Find A Death - Dinah Shore