Dinah!

I loved that. Thank you for posting it. I like how Dinah had to keep Shelley on track.

Dinah speaks like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.

She ate pussy like a champ!

I never understood that whole golf thing, what was that about?

Her voice was shot by then, though. Her singing was cringeworthy.

She was a real mensch.

Dinah was never the greatest singer. She was more of a "personality" and well-suited to TV.

Even more perplexing. How’d she get so many hit records? I remember when she had Barry White and his orchestra on her show...did you know that “Love’s Theme” had lyrics? Well, it does and she sang them. Quite badly. Still, I enjoyed watching her show with our babysitter. The days before cable and WWW. How did we survive?

Which was worse her show or Rona Barrett?

I loved Dinah. That's quite a DL lineup of guests in OP's clip.

Dinah was the real deal. Never heard a bad word about her from anyone who went on her show. From what was said, what you saw on the air was what you got when the cameras stopped rolling. She gets bonus points for satirizing herself with Andy Kaufman and on Mary Hartman.

A certain mean spirited, difficult talk show host today wishes she was as well liked as Dinah was.

Dinah loved her men to be hot, hairy and hung--George Montgomery and Burt Reynolds come to mind.

Ah, Dinah was a scissor sister R12.

Watching her show as a kid, I thought her show was the most boring thing ever. But watching it now, I enjoy her laid-back style.

Could she ever sing?

Dinah was my first word, my mom watched daily

Here's a recording from 1944. No, not a great singer, but could carry a tune. Only gossip about Shore was that she was really black. Anyone could see that she was a white as an Easter Lily.

Older Americans will tell you in no uncertain terms that the late Dinah Shore purportedly was a black woman who had passed for years. In an Interview magazine article published in the late 1980s, actress Ava Gardner casually mentioned her "black sister." And Talullah Bankhead, another Hollywood star, reportedly told people she was "touched by the tarbrush."

Such statements come as a surprise to whites and as no surprise to blacks, who routinely scan the features of racially nebulous people, looking for clues of distant African heritage. Mariah Carey? She's black. Jennifer Beals? Black.

Supposedly the "Dinah Shore is black" rumors started in the early after Dinah's radio show surpassed Kate Smiths in popularity and sponsorship. Dinah was the new, sexy "Songbird from the South" ....and Kate didn't like that one bit....

I heard someone's in the kitchen with her.

[quote]I thought her show was the most boring thing ever.

But it seems like a real conversation which I think what was so good about those old shows. No gimmicks or games or canned and publicist approved conversation.

Dang, Robert Osborne was a hottie. Who knew? (25:20)

r20 Yes. She even wrote a book about it.

"Dinah Sings, Previn Plays" - I grew up watching Dinah Shore and never appreciated her singing. Then got this recording of songs. I still enjoy listening to it. And as a child, we imitated her at the end of her show when she threw a kiss from the TV set to the audience at home.

Donald Trump presents: "Dinah in Jinah!"

She always wore slacks or long dresses because she had really bad legs.

[quote] A certain mean spirited, difficult talk show host today wishes she was as well liked as Dinah was.

I think Dinah is very much who Ellen tries to emulate on her show, the problem is she doesn't try to when the cameras aren't rolling.

Dinah once had Tina Turner on and they did Proud Mary together. Lord, I wish that were on YT.

I always loved when Farrah at the height of her popularity would come on Dinah!

R26, if you look at her right leg, you can see that it is slightly misshapen; Dinah had polio as a child. It deformed her leg.

Dinah was a 'songstress' - is that what you called ladies who interpreted songs? She had a sweet, slow style. I loved her show. She brought on great matched guests, I remember Pat Boone and Bing Crosby. She was sexy as hell, with that sweet southern accent. I remember her ads for Chevrolet with that big 'MWAH' smooch at the end. Burt loved her and she must have given him whatever he wanted; I hope she got it in return. Opened the doors to Hollywood for that pretty boy. Thank you, OP, for this thread.

Robert Osborne

I sat next to her and William S Paley at a Broadway Show, she could not have been nicer and I must say she was beautiful as well.

Dinah! salutes the ladies of Oscar*

Lucy, who claims she is not naturally funny, is pretty good in the telling of this tale.

The kind of stories you only get on DINAH!

Here's an interesting clip of Dinah singing with Vicki Lawrence and Carol Burnett. Vicki sounds like her "Mama" character, and Carol sounds like, well, her typical self.

I remember watching as a teenager when David Bowie was a guest. She did get some first rate guests, too bad she had to sing with them. My sister and I made fun of her awful singing by pretending to sing every song on the radio Dinah style. In retrospect, she was sincere and a good conversationalist compared to the hosts of today, especially Ellen. Was her dating Burt Reynolds a mutual bearding?

Alas, I think Dinah was really straight. I've never heard of any possible girlfriends.

Bowie and Dinah had a great rapport. She asked interesting questions and Bowie respected her intelligence and lack of condescension.

Dinah's interview with Iggy Pop is less satisfying, and Iggy todays admits he acted like a real asshole. But supposedly Dinah fucked him.

She was very likable. But my dad hated her singing.

Dinah once did a show with new young actresses. Karen Lynn Gorney fresh from SNL was one of them and was stoned out of her mind. It was thought that the interview did a great deal to kill her career.

She also did the famous episode with Liza right after she did "Chicago".

She had a lovely voice in the 1940s. And "Like Someone I Love" is one of the most enchanting songs of the period.

But her costume and hairstyle could not be less flattering.

[quote] Karen Lynn Gorney fresh from SNL

I assume you meant Saturday Night Fever, not SNL.

R42, correct. I could have written AMC as well. Didi Conn was on as was, I believe, Kathleen Quinlan.

Maybe Dinah could have played Sally in Follies.

Two things: 1) I remember when she had Burt Reynolds on the show. He was wearing powder blue pantsuit, but he still looked hot. She reached to him and gave him a big kiss to show the audience. "yes, ladies, he's mine!" 2) She sang 50 ways to leave your lover. Her voice was so shot, she could barely get the words out.

It was like she couldn’t accept the fact that she didn’t have her voice anymore. No one had the heart to tell her.

r43: She gave COMPANY a plug on her show and sang "The Ladies Who Lunch" with Jane Russell. The clip used to be on youtube but I can't find it anymore.

This is still on YouTube, Dinah gives Barbra the warmest introduction ever. But its probably Barbras worst TV performance.

[quote] Was her dating Burt Reynolds a mutual bearding?

I think it was for real. In one of Loretta Lynn's autobiographies she mentions that Burt was messing around with Tammy Wynette at the same time. They were all at some award show, and Tammy and Burt wanted Loretta to help them sneak around without Dinah finding out. Loretta told them she wouldn't do it, because even though she was best friends with Tammy, she was also friends with Dinah.