Jan 27, 2017
Dinah Shore: Profile in feminism (though she claimed she wasn't a feminist)
Performing at young age and in college (Vanderbilt University)
Standing with Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole & other black performers to ensure respectful treatment and airtime on TV and radio
Daytime Emmy Awards: 1974 for Dinah's Place, 1976 for Dinah?
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1970 + 4 nomination
Godmother to women's golf (LPGA) & increased women player pay by fusing her relationship with national sponsors to televised golf tournaments. Shore is the only non-player inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame.
The Dinah in Palm Springs