Death and Legacy
Dinah Shore died February 24, 1994, in Beverly Hills, California, of ovarian cancer, five days before her 78th birthday. She was cremated and her ashes were divided between her two memorial sites. Half were interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California, and the other half interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, near her second home in Palm Springs, California.
Shore's daughter, Melissa Montgomery, is the owner of the rights to most of Shore's television series. In March 2003, PBS presented MWAH! The Best of The Dinah Shore Show 1956–1963, an hour-long special of early color videotape footage of Dinah in duets with guests Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Pearl Bailey, George Burns, Groucho Marx, Peggy Lee, and Mahalia Jackson.
In both Cathedral City, California and Rancho Mirage, California, there are streets named after her. In her birthplace of Winchester, Tennessee, there is Dinah Shore Boulevard.
In 2006, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.
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