Druxman Dazzles With Dinah Shore

 
ALBANY, Ga. - June 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Before Oprah . . . before Ellen . . . there was DinahShore, the Queen of the Afternoon Talk Show.

Albany, Ga. – BearManor Media announces the release of Miss Dinah Shore by Michael B. Druxman.

Dinah’s fifty-year love affair with audiences began when she sang on Old Time Radio and performed and sang on recordings with the Xavier Cugat orchestra. She signed a contract with RCA Victor Records in 1950, charting with eighty popular song hits, including “Yes, My Darling Daughter” (selling more than 500,000 copies within weeks), and #1 hits, such as "Blues In the Night,” “Jim,” “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To," and "I'll Walk Alone.”

From Eddie Cantor’s 1940 radio show, Time to Smile, to her own 1943 radio show, Call to Music, she moved to Columbia Records and achieved her biggest hit records, including “Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy,” “Buttons and Bows” with Henri René and Orchestra, “The Gypsy," and “The Anniversary Song.” One of her most popular hits was the 1949 "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

From 1943 to 1980, Dinah appeared in fifteen Hollywood films. On American television in 1949, she made her official television show debut on The Ed Wynn Show. In 1951, she headlined The Dinah Shore Show on NBC, and in 1956, won the first of her many Emmy Awards. The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ran through the 1961–1962 season, and over twelve seasons from 1951 to 1963, she appeared in at least 125 hour-long programs and 444 fifteen-minute shows. Many called her “The First Lady of Television.”

Author Michael Druxman’s years of research leads you on a remarkable journey through Dinah’s struggle against overwhelming odds as a Jewish girl growing up in the Deep South and suffering an early bout with polio. The men in her life—husband George Montgomery, Frank Sinatra, Burt Reynolds, and other clandestine relationships, were the fodder of tabloids, but she survived.

24 photos. A Bibliography, Filmography, and a Discography

About the author: Michael B. Druxman is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter. His film credits include Cheyenne Warrior, Dillinger and Capone, and The Doorway (which he also directed). As a playwright, he is the author of The Hollywood Legends, a collection of twelve plays about film icons, such as Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and Al Jolson.  His books include Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films; Make It Again, Sam: A Survey of Movie Remakes; The Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood. His novels include Murder in Babylon; Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake; and Shadow Watcher, plus a book of short stories, Dracula Meets Jack the Ripper & Other Revisionist Histories. Mr. Druxman resides in Austin, TX.

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Available exclusively from BearManor Media in hardback, paperback, and e-book editions. 8 chapters filled with large-size illustrations from the author’s personal collection, including portraits, publicity photos, scene stills, lobby cards, posters, and notes about all 81 films. Indexed.

About BearManor Media: The award-winning and Pulitzer-nominated press publishes cutting-edge entertainment books, audio books, e-books, CDs, and DVDs on movies, television, radio, theater, animation, and more. Founded in 2001 by Publisher Ben Ohmart, the BearManor Media catalog now features more than 600 outstanding subjects from the obscure to the eminent. Visit www.bearmanormedia.com

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