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Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an
United States|American actor|actress and singer
who was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick.
She married twice, first to actor John Shelton,
second to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston. She has
one daughter. Throughout the 1950's, had an affair
with Howard Hughes and was briefly engaged to him.

One of the most controversial sopranos with a
high, if painfully aspirated, coloratura, Miss
Grayson seems to have few admirers in the world of
professional vocalists. Though she started out
MGM's answer to Deanna Durbin (with films such as 
Seven Sweethearts and Anchors Aweigh), she proved
herself a decent star in the film versions of the
Broadway hits Show Boat (1951) and Kiss Me, Kate
(1953). Grayson also appeared in a duo of films
with tenor Mario Lanza.

With the end of MGM's great era of musicals, so
ended Miss Grayson's film career. She took over
for Julie Andrews on Broadway in Camelot, but
flopped in the part. Although she had a lifelong
dream of being an opera star, she never had much
success with it, appearing in only a small handful
of operas in the '60s. 

Despite being overshadowed these days by MGM
contemporaries such as Jane Powell, Ann Miller,
Cyd Charisse, Esther Williams and Ann Blyth, Miss
Grayson (and her ample figure) seems to have
gained cult status among a small, but wildly
devoted, crowd of fans.  

==Filmography==
*Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
*Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
*The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
*Rio Rita (1942)
*Seven Sweethearts (1942)
*Thousands Cheer (1943)
*Anchors Aweigh (1945)
*Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
*Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
*Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
*It Happened to Brooklyn (1947)
*The Kissing Bandit (1948)
*That Midnight Kiss (1949)
*The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
*Grounds for Marriage (1951)
*Show Boat (1951)
*Lovely to Look At (1952)
*The Desert Song (1953)
*So This Is Love (1953)
*Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
*The Vagabond King (1956)
*The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena (1977)
(documentary)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)