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Helen Dowdy
Helen Dowdy is credited on 42 releases across 8 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2010 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
42
Pressings credited
8
Albums
7
Decades active
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In collections
Biography
Helen Dowdy (? - Feb. 1971) was an American Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat (a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927). She was born in New York City. Dowdy created the roles of Lily and the Strawberry Woman in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess — roles she played for nearly twenty years in several productions. She appeared in Run, Little Chillun. In the 1951 so-called "complete" recording of the opera, Dowdy sang both roles as well as that of Maria. In 1944, Dowdy performed with Katherine Dunham, troupe on tour. Dowdy also appeared on television on the October 17, 1957, episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame as the Stout Angel in a television production of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures. Dowdy died in February 1971 in New York.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
42 releases · 8 albums · active 1951–2010
- Performance · 60
- Other credits · 13
Studios: Berliner Festwochen · Titania-Palast, Berlin
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- George Gershwin
- G. Gershwin
- Leonard Sillman
- Jan Clayton
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