Shirley Ross
Shirley Ross was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States on January 7th, 1913 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 62, Shirley Ross biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bernice Maude Gaunt, born Bernice Maude Gaunt, 1913-1935 – March 9, 1975), an American actress and singer best known for her duet with Bob Hope's "Thanks for the Memory" from 1938's Big Broadcast.
She appeared in 25 feature films between 1933 and 1945, including singing earlier and entirely different lyrics for the Rodgers and Hart song in Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which later became "Blue Moon."
Early musical career
Ross was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the elder of two daughters of Charles Burr Gaunt and Maude C. (née Ellis) Gaunt. Growing up in California, she attended Hollywood High School and UCLA, training as a classical pianist.
By age 14, she was giving radio recitals and made her first vocal recordings at 20 with Gus Arnheims's band.
Here she attracted the notice of the up-and-coming songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart, who selected her to sell their latest offerings to MGM. One song, which was later re-written as "Blue Moon", led to a successful screen test in 1933 and then to a number of small parts in films that included Manhattan Melodrama with Clark Gable and William Powell in which, made up to look black, she sang "The Bad in Every Man," an earlier version of "Blue Moon," in a Harlem nightclub.
Later career and death
Although Ross knew that her understated appeal was better suited to the screen than the stage, she played the lead in Rodgers and Hart’s Broadway musical Higher and Higher (1940), featuring the song "It Never Entered My Mind." The show was a critical failure. After a few forgettable movies and some radio work, most notably as a regular cast member on The Bob Burns Show between 1943 and 1947, Ross increasingly attended to her terminally ill husband Ken Dolan, which became an early retirement.
Ross died from cancer in Menlo Park, California, aged 62. As her married name, Bernice Dolan Blum, was not well known, her death was not widely publicized. But Hope, with whom she had an enduring real-life friendship, did not fail to commemorate her death. He and Crosby sent a 5-foot tall cross with white carnations and a spray of red roses to her funeral. According to her daughter, it was mobbed.