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Steve Lawrence (born July 8, 1935) is an American singer, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen's The Tonight Show in the mid 1950sBiography from Las Vegas Online2003 Interview with Larry King, from a CNN website.
Lawrence is an actor as well, appearing in guest roles on television shows in every decade since the 1950s, in shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, Night Gallery, Police Story, Murder, She Wrote, Gilmore Girls, and Crime Scene Investigation. In the 1960s Lawrence was the star of a variety show called The Steve Lawrence Show, "the last television show in black and white on CBS". Lawrence also appeared in the last season of The Nanny as Fran's never-before-seen father, Morty Fine.
Lawrence portrayed manager Maury Slime in the hit movie the Blues Brothers with Jon Belushi.
Awards
Lawrence has been awarded a Drama Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award nomination for his performance of What Makes Sammy Run on Broadway, and two Emmy Awards —one for production—for Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin, which altogether won seven Emmys.
With Gormé, he has been the recipient of two Emmys for Our Love is Here to Stay, a tribute to George and Ira Gershwin; a "Best Performance By a Vocal Duo or Group" Grammy Award for We Got Us; a Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence and a Television Critics Circle Award for From This Moment On, a tribute to Cole Porter.
The duo have also won a Las Vegas Entertainment Award for "Musical Variety Act of the Year" four times, three of them consecutively. They have been honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the Songwriters Hall of FameOfficial website of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, and in 1995 were the recipients of an Ella Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Singers, a non-profit organization that helps professional singers with counseling and financial assistance.
Personal life
Lawrence was born Sidney Leibowitz in Brooklyn, New York. He and Gormé married on December 29, 1957 at the El Rancho Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had two sons, the younger of whom, Michael, died in 1986 at the age of 23.
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American musical theatre actors | American male singers | 1935 births | Living people | Gaming Hall of Fame | Jewish-American singers | Recipients of the Ella award
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