Betty Grable
Acting
Born 1916-12-18
Died 1973-07-02
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Grable was enrolled in Clark's Dancing School at the age of three. At age 13, Grable and her mother set out for Hollywood with the hopes of stardom. There she landed several minor parts in films such as Whoopee!, New Movietone Follies of 1930, Happy Days and Let's Go Places.
In 1932, she signed with RKO Radio Pictures. The bit parts continued for the next three years until Grable was cast in By Your Leave. One of her big roles was in College Swing.. When she landed the role of Glenda Crawford in Down Argentine Way, the public finally took notice of her. Stardom came through comedies such as Coney Island and Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Her famous pin-up pose during World War II adorned barracks all around the world. With that pin-up and as the star of lavish musicals, Betty became the highest-paid star in Hollywood in 1947. Later her studio 20th Century-Fox insured her legs for a million dollars.
Betty continued to be popular until the mid-1950s, when musicals went into a decline. Her last film was How to Be Very, Very Popular. She then concentrated on Broadway and nightclubs.
She was married to actor Jackie Coogan (1937–1939) and musician Harry James (1943–1965).
Betty Grable died at age 56 of lung cancer on July 2, 1973.
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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Carol Burnett Show
What's My Line?
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Hollywood Palace
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
How to Marry a Millionaire
The Gay Divorcee
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Cavalcade
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Becoming Marilyn
Love Detectives
Follow the Fleet
I Wake Up Screaming
Collegiate
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Palmy Days
This Is Bob Hope...
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Three for the Show
That Lady in Ermine
Pin Up Girl
Happy Days
Coney Island
My Blue Heaven
Take It or Leave It
College Swing
The Costume Designer
Mother Wore Tights
Child of Manhattan
Showbiz Goes to War
Wabash Avenue
Wing and a Prayer
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Down Argentine Way
Kiki
Whoopee!
Hold 'Em Jail
By Your Leave
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Marilyn
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Student Tour
The Nitwits
Million Dollar Legs
Give Me a Sailor
Footlight Serenade
Tin Pan Alley
The Kid from Spain
Pigskin Parade
Marilyn at the Movies
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
What Price Innocence?
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