HOLLYWOOD'S KATHRYN GRAYSON DEAD AT 88

Kathryn Grayson

Hollywood legend Kathryn Grayson, whose voice sang out on such popular MGM musicals of the 1940s and '50s as "Anchors Aweigh," "Show Boat" and "Kiss Me Kate," has died. She was 88 years old. Grayson died Wednesday at her Los Angeles California home. She married and divorced MGM contract players John Shelton and Johnny Johnston. The marriage to Johnston produced her only child, Patricia Towers. She never wed again after her second marriage, and in a 1988 interview she said she had no intention of writing a memoir because it wouldn't be the "kiss and tell" kind the publishers wanted. "I'm a Pollyanna," she confessed. "I had to stop writing because I love everybody and I was saying everyone was beautiful. I just happen to think people are pretty wonderful." She is survived by her daughter and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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