Betty Garrett
Acting
Born 1919-05-23
Died 2011-02-12
Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
43 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, who starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement.
As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.
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Filmography
Acting
39 credits
Grey's Anatomy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Murder, She Wrote
The Love Boat
The Fugitive
Great Performances
The Golden Girls
Boston Public
All in the Family
Becker
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Laverne & Shirley
Dinah!
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Union Square
The Good Life
On the Town
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment! III
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
That's Dancing!
My Sister Eileen
Words and Music
Neptune's Daughter
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The Long Way Home
The Costume Designer
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Big City
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Dark and Stormy Night
The Shadow on the Window
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
All the Way Home
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Other credits
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