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Dinah Shore

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Dinah Shore Fast Facts:

Overcame childhood polio.
While in college, she had her own 15-minute radio show, Our Little Cheerleader of Song, on Nashville's leading station, WSM.
Made her film debut in 1943's Thank Your Lucky Stars, starring her mentor, Eddie Cantor (on whose radio show she sang for three years).
Famed for breaking out of a big-band format to take on a solo singing career in the 1940s, a decade in which she recorded such hits as "Buttons and Bows" and "The Gypsy."
First female star with her own prime-time variety show: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956-63), which she always ended with her trademark "See the USA in your Chevrolet," blowing a kiss to viewers.
In addition to her prime-time Emmys, won two Daytime Emmys in the 1970s for Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series.
Headstone on her grave reads: "Dinah Shore---Loved by all who knew her and millions who never did."
TV Guide magazine once named her as No. 16 among TV's 50 top stars.
Her home town has a Dinah Shore Boulevard in her honor.

Dinah Shore Relationships:
Anna Stein Shore - Mother
Bessie Shore Seligman - Sister
Burt Reynolds - Ex-significant Other
George Montgomery - Ex-husband
John David Montgomery - Son
Maurice F. Smith - Ex-husband
Melissa Ann Montgomery Hime - Daughter
Solomon A. Shore - Father
Dinah Shore Awards:
1973 Emmy: Outstanding Program Achievement in Daytime - Winner
1954 Emmy: Best Female Star of a Regular Series - Nominee
1977 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
1955 Emmy: Best Female Singer - Winner
1956 Emmy: Best Female Singer - Winner
1957 Emmy: Best Female Personality- Continuing Performance - Winner
1959 Emmy: Best Performance by an Actress (Continuing Character) in a Musical or Variety Series - Winner
1960 Emmy: Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program - Nominee
1961 Emmy: Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series - Nominee
1956 Golden Globe: Television Achievement - Winner
1958 Emmy: Best Continuing Performance (Female) in a Series by a Comedienne, Singer, Hostess, Dancer, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, - Winner
1972 Emmy: Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Nominee
College:
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (BA in Sociology)