Dolores Gray (7 June 1924 – 26 June 2002) was an American stage and film actress. During her successful music career, she sang Marilyn Monroe's part on the Decca records soundtrack album of There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) (Monroe herself sang on the film's soundtrack, but she was under contract to a different company.)
In 1955, she briefly signed with MGM and appeared in such films as Kismet and It's Always Fair Weather. Her final televised appearance was in the Doctor Who serial entitled Silver Nemesis.
Among her many stage roles, she appeared in Two on the Aisle (1951), Carnival In Flanders (1953); Destry Rides Again (1959); Sherry! (1967); and 42nd Street (1986). She also performed the lead role in Annie Get Your Gun in London (1947).
Gray earned the Tony Award for her role in Carnival in Flanders even though this Broadway musical, with a script by Preston Sturges, ran for only six performances. She therefore holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken: briefest run in a performance which still merited the prestigious Tony.
She died of a heart attack in Manhattan, aged 78.
She was known more for the stage than in films. One of her biggest regrets she recalls is, "What a gift that would be to have more of a permanent record. A stage performance is just that, then it's lost. When I see movies on TV, I think, 'How great to have that.' But why look back? The decisions I made, I made. I can't change that."
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