1957: Designing Woman 

DOLORES GRAY

as "Lori Shannon"



While her brief stint in the mid-50s produced 1 certified gem in It's Always Fair Weather, this movie points to the inherent conundrum of casting Dolores Gray : She projects larger-than-life and does not easily fit into naturalistic settings... She naturally stops a movie dead in its tracks with her Glamazonian Beauty... Proving to be too big for the screen she found the stage to be her more suitable habitat, where her largesse scaled in proportion...