Biography
Primarily a stage actress -- she starred in the London production of
Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun -- blonde, long-limbed Dolores Gray enjoyed a brief flurry of film activity. Though she made a brace of cameo appearances in
Lady for a Night (1941) and Mr. Skeffington (1944), she began her movie career proper as
Gene Kelly's vis-à-vis in MGM's
It's Always Fair Weather (1955). She went on to play the alluring Lalume in
Kismet (1955), the gossipy Sylvia in
The Opposite Sex (the 1956 musical remake of
The Women), and the TV star, ex-flame of sportswriter
Gregory Peck in
Designing Women (1957). When MGM briefly decided to abandon big-budget musicals in 1957, Dolores Gray bade farewell to films, successfully returning to the Broadway and London stage. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide