KATHRYN GRAYSON - SHEET MUSIC SIGNED - HFSID 269570

KATHRYN GRAYSON
Kathryn Grayson signs sheet music for "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man'", featured in the 1951 M-G-M film, Show Boat.
Sheet Music signed: "Kathryn/Grayson" on front cover, 8p, 9x12. Sheet music for "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man'", featured in the 1951 M-G-M film, Show Boat, which starred Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner and Howard Keel. Words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, music by Jerome Kern. Original copyright 1928, T.B. Harms Co., N.Y. Grayson starred as Magnolia Hawks in this third film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical, which first ran on Broadway from December 27, 1927-May 4, 1929 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Discovered by M-G-M while a teenaged vocalist on Eddie Cantor's radio program, Kathryn Grayson made her first major film appearance in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1940), in which she sang "Lucia" and "Voices of Spring". Her first leading role came two years later, when she starred as the title character in M-G-M's Rio Rita. Grayson, who appeared in such films as Anchors Aweigh (1943), The Kissing Bandit (1948) and The Toast of New Orleans (1950), gave her finest performances in Showboat (1951) and Kiss Me Kate (1953). In the latter two films, she was teamed with baritone Howard Keel, who would later become her singing partner in nightclubs and in summer stock. Although Grayson made her last film in 1956 (The Vagabond King), she returned to the small screen in 1980, appearing on Murder She Wrote. Inside pages and back cover lightly soiled and stained. 2-inch tear at lower edge at mid-vertical fold. Lightly creased, worn at edges. Overall, fine condition.