Biography
Doretta Marano entered the world on 27 January 1928 in New York City, New York, USA, and departed this life on 28 February 1968 in London, England. Celebrated for her silvery vocal quality, the singer first reached Broadway audiences in Where’s Charley? (1948) and soon afterward assumed the role of Tuptim for the 1950 mounting of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s The King And I. That assignment positioned her to unveil ‘We Kiss In A Shadow’ as well as, in partnership with Larry Douglas, ‘I Have Dreamed’. Further credits that followed comprised a 1950 television presentation of Knickerbocker Holiday and a screen appearance in the 1952 film Because You’re Mine opposite Mario Lanza, after which she reclaimed the Broadway spotlight. In 1953 she embodied Marsinah within Robert Wright and George Forrest’s Kismet, thereby introducing ‘Baubles, Bangles And Beads’ and ‘Stranger In Paradise’. Morrow returned to the same character for the musical’s London premiere in 1955. The ensuing year brought a national tour in Fanny across the USA together with a London engagement in Cole Porter’s Aladdin. Once married, Morrow stepped away from the theatre, only to succumb to cancer a few years later.
Singles