Photo Coverage: Remembering Eydie Gorme

Famed singer, actress and Broadway star Eydie Gormé died this weekend at age 84. BroadwayWorld remembers the late legend below.

Gorme's spokesperson Howard Bragman announced the news yesterday. He said: "Legendary singer and performer Eydie Gorme passed away peacefully today at Sunrise Hospital following a brief illness. She was surrounded by her husband, son and other loved ones at the time of her death."

In his own statement, Steve Lawrence said: "Eydie has been my partner on stage and in life for more than 55 years. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and even more the first time I heard her sing. While my personal loss is unimaginable, the world has lost one of the greatest pop vocalists of all time."

In addition to a storied recording and television career, she starred alongside her husband in Golden Rainbow on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, notable as being the first Broadway show to open with an advance of over $1 million dollars. The previews for Golden Rainbow began at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia on November 28, 1967, moving to its new location in New York City at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on December 27, 1967. The musical officially opened on February 4, 1968 at the Shubert, where it played until November 17, 1968. On November 19, 1968, its run resumed at the George Abbott Theatre on Broadway, where Golden Rainbow played until it closed on January 11, 1969.

According to her official iTunes artist biography, For 20 years, from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s, Gormé consistently scored in the pop charts, with a parallel place in the Latin pop field from the 1960s on. She appeared on television and on the Broadway stage. And she was a major nightclub entertainer, headlining in Las Vegas showrooms and around the U.S. For most of her career, she worked both solo and in a duo with her husband, Steve Lawrence.

Photos by Walter McBride

Eydie Gorme attending a performance of 'Dreamgirls' at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on June 1, 1984.

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme attending a performance of 'Dreamgirls' at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on June 1, 1984.

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme attending a performance of 'Dreamgirls' at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on June 1, 1984.

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme attending a performance of 'Dreamgirls' at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on June 1, 1984.

Eydie Gorme pictured at an event in New York in 1990.