Known for movies
Short Info
Died | July 2, 1973, Santa Monica, California, United States |
Spouse | Harry James, Jackie Coogan |
Mark | Her sexy legs |
Fact | She was offered the Anne Baxter role in The Razor's Edge (1946) but turned it down. Baxter ultimately won an Oscar as Sophie MacDonald. |
Betty Grable was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her roles in musical films, such as Down Argentine Way (1940), Moon Over Miami (1941), and Footlight Serenade (1942). Grable began her career as a dancer in vaudeville, before moving to Hollywood in 1930. She signed with Fox Film Corporation, where she made her film debut in Happy Days (1930). She became one of the studio’s most popular actresses and one of the top box-office draws of the 1940s. Her dancing and physical appearance were her key selling points. She was known as the “girl with the million-dollar legs”.
Grable’s popularity continued into the 1950s. She made several comedies, including How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), which was one of her biggest box-office hits. She also appeared in dramas, such as The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) and Betrayed (1954). She retired from acting in 1955 after she married bandleader Harry James.
Grable was born Elizabeth Ruth Grable on December 18, 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Lillian Rose (née Hofmann; 1884–1973) and John Charles Grable (1880–1943), a stockbroker. She had Dutch, English, German, and Irish ancestry. Her father was a Catholic, and her mother was a Protestant. Grable grew up in a strict household and was raised as a Methodist.
Grable’s mother died when she was 11 years old, and her father married actress Helen Willis in 1928. Grable attended Soldan High School, where she took lessons in tap dancing and acting. She also took voice lessons, but she never sang professionally.
Grable began her show business career as a dancer in Broadway revues during the early 1930s. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 and 1935. She also appeared in Earl Carroll’s Vanities (1935) and George White’s Scandals (1936). In 1936, she was signed to a film contract by Fox Film Corporation.
Grable made her film debut in the musical comedy Happy Days (1930). She had a small role as a flapper girl. The film was not a success, but it led to Grable being cast in other musical films.
Grable’s big break came in 1940 when she was cast as the female lead in the musical film Down Argentine Way. The film was a hit and made her a star. She followed it with another hit musical, Moon Over Miami (1941).
In 1942, Grable starred in the musical comedy Footlight Serenade. The film was another box-office hit for Grable. She also starred in the drama Song of the Islands (1942) and the musicals Pin Up Girl (1944) and Diamond Horseshoe (1945).
Grable’s popularity continued into the 1950s. She starred in the comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Call Me Madam (1953). She also appeared in the dramas The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) and Betrayed (1954).
Grable retired from acting in 1955 after she married bandleader Harry James. The couple had two children: Victoria Elizabeth James (born 1956) and Jessica Lily James (born 1958). Grable died of lung cancer on July 2, 1973, at the age of 56.
General Info
Full Name | Betty Grable |
Died | July 2, 1973, Santa Monica, California, United States |
Height | 1.63 m |
Profession | Pin-up model, Actor, Singer, Dancer |
Education | Hollywood Professional School |
Nationality | American |
Family
Spouse | Harry James, Jackie Coogan |
Children | Victoria Elizabeth James, Jessica James |
Parents | John Conn Grable, Lillian Rose Hofmann |
Accomplishments
Movies | How to Marry a Millionaire, Down Argentine Way, Coney Island, The Dolly Sisters, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Springtime in the Rockies, Pin Up Girl, Moon Over Miami, Mother Wore Tights, I Wake Up Screaming, Wabash Avenue, My Blue Heaven, Song of the Islands, Footlight Serenade, Tin Pan Alley, When My Baby ... |
TV Shows | Star Stage |
Social profile links
Marks
# | Marks / Signs |
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1 | Voluptuous figure |
2 | Her sexy legs |
3 | Blue eyes and pale skin |
4 | Platinum blonde hair |
Quotes
# | Quote |
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1 | [In 1942] Maybe it's a wholesome quality or an American girl quality. People write to me as if I were a sister or friend. |
2 | Grable played the only two straight roles of her career in 1941, "A Yank in the R.A.F." and "I Wake Up Screaming". |
3 | [on her November 19, 1937 marriage] I want to be Mrs. Jackie Coogan for life. [They divorced three months later] |
4 | [When asked if her status as new mother threatened her image] I never thought of it. If they don't like it, the devil with 'em. Fact is, I've more fan mail since, especially from servicemen telling me about their wives and babies. |
5 | [Concerning her and other stars' status as World War II pin-up queens] A lot of these kids don't have any women in their life to fight for - I guess what you would call us girls is kind of their inspiration. It is a grave responsibility. |
6 | [on Marilyn Monroe] It may sound peculiar to say so, because she is no longer with us, but we were very close. Once when we were doing that picture How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) together, I got a call on the set: my younger daughter had had a fall. I ran home and the one person to call was Marilyn. She did an awful lot to boost things up for movies when everything was at a low state; there'll never be anyone like her for looks, for attitude, for all of it. |
7 | My legs made me. |
8 | There's nothing mysterious about me. |
9 | [on Alice Faye] Alice is a darling. Everybody loves her. |
10 | The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. |
11 | I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. |
12 | I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl. |
13 | It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT! |
14 | There are two reasons why I am successful in show business and I am standing on both of them. |
15 | You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night. |
16 | The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. |
Facts
# | Fact |
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1 | Died five days before Veronica Lake. |
2 | Had appeared with John Payne in five films: College Swing (1938), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Footlight Serenade (1942), Springtime in the Rockies (1942) and The Dolly Sisters (1945). |
3 | She was offered the Anne Baxter role in The Razor's Edge (1946) but turned it down. Baxter ultimately won an Oscar as Sophie MacDonald. |
4 | At one point during the 1940s, Grable reportedly earned $300,000 a year, making her one of the world's highest paid women. Her films earned over $15 million for 20th Century Fox. |
5 | Very early in her career, she sang with the Ted Fiorito Band. According to Grable: "The only trouble was I couldn't sing.". |
6 | While attending Hollywood Professional School, she developed a musical act with friend Emlyn Pique, who later took the name Mitzi Mayfair. |
7 | Made her film debut at age 13 in a Fox quickie, "Let's Go Places" in 1930. She lied about her age, stating she was 15. |
8 | Samuel Goldwyn considered her seriously for Guys and Dolls (1955), but when her dog broke its leg, Grable canceled an appointment with him. A miffed Goldwyn then gave the original Adelaide, former Fox co-worker Vivian Blaine, the role. |
9 | When Shelley Winters bowed out of Pickup on South Street (1953), a pregnant Grable turned down the offer of starring in the film noir, and the role went to Jean Peters. |
10 | She appeared with former Fox co-star Dick Haymes as presenters at the 1972 Oscar ceremony. |
11 | Betty's famous pin-up pose (in bathing suit, back to the camera, smiling over her right shoulder) was taken that way because she was pregnant and it showed. They felt that showing her from the front would not be in good taste. |
12 | She was a lifelong Republican and conservative. |
13 | Inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1990 and the Hall of Famous Missourians in 2009. |
14 | Her stepson, Tim James, was an attorney working with the then Attorney General of Texas and became responsible for enticing television personality Marvin Zindler of Houston to investigate the famous Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas - eventually closing it down. The story became the basis of the Broadway and movie musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). |
15 | In Italy, her films were often dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta and Dhia Cristiani. She was occasionally dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi and Clelia Bernacchi. |
16 | In How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), her character makes a pointed reference to Harry James while listening to the radio at the lodge (Grable was married to him at the time). The song playing on the radio is "You'll Never Know", from Hello Frisco, Hello (1943), and was sung in the film by Alice Faye. It won the Academy Award as Best Song in 1943 (Source: AMPAS). |
17 | She and Harry James had two daughters: Victoria Elizabeth James (born March 3, 1944) and Jessica James (born May 20, 1947). |
18 | Portrayed by Jayne Mansfield in the biography The George Raft Story (1961). However, at the time she was not public domain so the character's name was changed to Lisa. |
19 | Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka's song "Betty Grable" was totally dedicated to her memory. |
20 | Did Playtex 18-hour Shortie commercials in the 1960s using her famous pin-up pose -- purportedly because she needed the money after her husband had spent her savings. |
21 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6525 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
22 | Suffered from "demophobia" (fear of crowds) and was a somnambulist (sleepwalker). |
23 | Voted Best Figure of 1941. |
24 | Niece of actor Vinton Hayworth. |
25 | Was one of the 20 original The Goldwyn Girls, among whom were Lucille Ball, Virginia Bruce, Ann Dvorak and Paulette Goddard. |
26 | Following her death, she was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. |
27 | In 1946-1947, the Treasury Department noted that she was the highest paid woman in America, receiving $300,000 a year. |
28 | In the late 1940s, 20th Century Fox insured her legs with Lloyds of London for a quarter million dollars. |
29 | Ex-husband Harry James died on what would have been their 40th anniversary. |
Pictures
Movies
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Shower of Stars | 1954-1958 | TV Series | Betty Grable |
Ford Star Jubilee | 1956 | TV Series | Lily Garland |
Star Stage | 1956 | TV Series | Cleopatra Collins |
How to Be Very, Very Popular | 1955 | Stormy Tornado | |
Three for the Show | 1955 | Julie Lowndes | |
How to Marry a Millionaire | 1953 | Loco Dempsey | |
The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1953 | Molly Larkins | |
Meet Me After the Show | 1951 | Delilah Lee | |
Call Me Mister | 1951 | Kay Hudson | |
My Blue Heaven | 1950 | Kitty Moran | |
Wabash Avenue | 1950 | Ruby Summers | |
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend | 1949 | Freddie | |
When My Baby Smiles at Me | 1948 | Bonny Kane | |
That Lady in Ermine | 1948 | Francesca Angelina | |
Mother Wore Tights | 1947 | Mother | |
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | 1947 | Cynthia Pilgrim | |
Do You Love Me | 1946 | Barry's Fan in Taxi (uncredited) | |
The Dolly Sisters | 1945 | Yansci 'Jenny' Dolly | |
Diamond Horseshoe | 1945 | Bonnie Collins | |
Pin Up Girl | 1944 | Lorry Jones aka Laura Lorraine | |
Four Jills in a Jeep | 1944 | Betty Grable | |
Coney Island | 1943 | Kate Farley | |
Springtime in the Rockies | 1942 | Vicky Lane | |
Footlight Serenade | 1942 | Pat Lambert | |
Song of the Islands | 1942 | Eileen O'Brien | |
I Wake Up Screaming | 1941 | Jill Lynn | |
A Yank in the R.A.F. | 1941 | Carol Brown | |
Moon Over Miami | 1941 | Kay Latimer | |
Tin Pan Alley | 1940 | Lily Blane | |
Down Argentine Way | 1940 | Glenda Crawford | |
The Day the Bookies Wept | 1939 | Ina Firpo | |
Million Dollar Legs | 1939 | Carol Parker | |
Man About Town | 1939 | Susan Hayes | |
Campus Confessions | 1938 | Joyce Gilmore | |
Give Me a Sailor | 1938 | Nancy Larkin | |
College Swing | 1938 | Betty | |
Thrill of a Lifetime | 1937 | Gwen | |
This Way Please | 1937 | Jane Morrow | |
Pigskin Parade | 1936 | Laura Watson | |
Don't Turn 'em Loose | 1936 | Mildred Webster | |
Follow the Fleet | 1936 | Singer in Trio | |
Collegiate | 1936 | Dorothy | |
A Quiet Fourth | 1935 | Short | |
Old Man Rhythm | 1935 | Sylvia | |
Drawing Rumors | 1935 | Short | |
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl | 1935 | Short | Vocalist |
The Nitwits | 1935 | Mary Roberts | |
The Spirit of 1976 | 1935 | Short | |
This Band Age | 1935 | Short | Betty - Band Singer |
Ferry-Go-Round | 1934 | Short | Betty |
By Your Leave | 1934 | Frances | |
The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Dance Specialty | |
Student Tour | 1934 | Cayenne (uncredited) | |
Susie's Affairs | 1934 | Short | Susie Lee |
Business Is a Pleasure | 1934 | Short | |
Elmer Steps Out | 1934 | Short | |
Love Detectives | 1934 | Short | Alice |
School for Romance | 1934 | Short | Student |
Air Tonic | 1933 | Short | Betty Grable - Band Singer |
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | 1933 | Band Singer with Ted Fio Rito | |
What Price Innocence? | 1933 | Beverly Bennett | |
Melody Cruise | 1933 | First Stewardess (uncredited) | |
Child of Manhattan | 1933 | Lucy | |
Cavalcade | 1933 | Girl on Couch (unconfirmed, uncredited) | |
The Kid from Spain | 1932 | Goldwyn Girl (uncredited) | |
Over the Counter | 1932 | Short | Customer Who Wants to Buy a Baby (uncredited) |
Hold 'Em Jail | 1932 | Barbara | |
The Age of Consent | 1932 | Student at Dormitory (uncredited) | |
Hollywood Lights | 1932 | Short as Frances Dean | |
The Flirty Sleepwalker | 1932 | Short | Blonde Girl (as Frances Dean) |
Probation | 1932 | Ruth | |
Hollywood Luck | 1932 | Short as Frances Dean | |
Lady! Please! | 1932 | Short | Undetermined Minor Role (as Frances Dean, unconfirmed) |
The Greeks Had a Word for Them | 1932 | Hat Check Girl (uncredited) | |
Once a Hero | 1931 | Short as Frances Dean | |
Palmy Days | 1931 | Goldwyn Girl (uncredited) | |
Ex-Sweeties | 1931 | Short | Undetermined Minor Role (as Frances Dean) |
Crashing Hollywood | 1931 | Short as Frances Dean | |
Kiki | 1931 | Goldwyn Girl (uncredited) | |
Whoopee! | 1930 | Goldwyn Girl (uncredited) | |
New Movietone Follies of 1930 | 1930 | Chorine (uncredited) | |
Let's Go Places | 1930 | Chorine (uncredited) | |
Happy Days | 1929 | Chorus Woman |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Longest Ride | 2015 | performer: "HI-YA LOVE" | |
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing | 2009 | Video documentary performer: "In Acapulco", "The Vamp", "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited | |
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure | 2008 | TV Movie documentary performer: "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited | |
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults | 1997 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Down Argentina Way" uncredited, "K-K-K-Katy" uncredited, "Daddy", "You're My Little Pin-Up Girl" uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" uncredited, "You Started Something" uncredited, "This Is It", "Land on Your Feet" | |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | performer: "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" 1908 | |
The Love Goddesses | 1965 | Documentary performer: "College Swing" - uncredited | |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1960 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The George Burns Show | 1960 | TV Special performer: "I Refuse to Rock and Roll", "Buttons and Bows" - uncredited | |
Shower of Stars | 1958 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour | 1958 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | performer: "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" - uncredited | |
Three for the Show | 1955 | performer: "How Come you Do Me Like You Do", "Just One Of Those Things", "I've Got A Crush On You", "Down Boy", "I've Been Kissed Before" | |
The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1953 | performer: "Today I Love Everybody" 1953, "On the Erie Canal" 1953, "Somethin' Real Special" 1953, "With the Sun Warm Upon Me" 1953, "We're in Business" 1953, "I Could Cook" 1953 - uncredited | |
Meet Me After the Show | 1951 | performer: "MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW", "BETTING ON A MAN", "IT'S A HOT NIGHT IN ALASKA", "NO TALENT JOE", "I FEEL LIKE DANCING", "NIGHT MUSIC" | |
Call Me Mister | 1951 | "CALL ME MISTER" / performer: "JAPANESE GIRL LIKE 'MERICAN BOY", "I'M GONNA LOVE THAT GUY LIKE HE'S NEVER BEEN LOVED BEFORE", "I JUST CAN'T DO ENOUGH FOR YOU, BABY", "LOVE IS BACK IN BUSINESS" | |
My Blue Heaven | 1950 | performer: "My Blue Heaven", "It's Deductible", "Halloween", "I Love a New Yorker", "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard", "The Friendly Islands", "Don't Rock the Boat, Dear" - uncredited | |
Wabash Avenue | 1950 | performer: "DOWN ON WABASH AVENUE", "I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE" uncredited, "HONEY MAN MY LITTLE LOVIN' HONEY MAN" uncredited, "MAY I TEMPT YOU WITH A BIG RED ROSY APPLE?", "BABY WON'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME?", "I REMEMBER YOU" uncredited, "BILLY I ALWAYS DREAM OF BILL" uncredited, "WILHELMINA" | |
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend | 1949 | performer: "Every Time I Meet You", "In the Gloaming" 1877 - uncredited | |
That Lady in Ermine | 1948 | lyrics: "There's Something About Midnight" - uncredited / performer: "Ooh! What I'll Do To That Wild Hungarian", "The Melody Has to Be Right", "This Is the Moment" - uncredited | |
Mother Wore Tights | 1947 | performer: "Burlington Bertie from Bow" uncredited, "You Do", "This Is My Favorite City", "We're a Couple of Broadway Brothers", "Kokomo, Indiana", "Tra-La-La-La" uncredited, "There's Nothing Like a Song", " Rolling Down Bowling Green On a Little Two-Seat Tandem", "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" uncredited | |
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | 1947 | "The Back Bay Polka", uncredited / performer: "Changing My Tune", "Stand Up and Fight", "Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?", "One, Two, Three", "Waltzing Is Better Sitting Down", "For You, for Me, for Evermore" - uncredited | |
The Dolly Sisters | 1945 | performer: "Hungarian Dance No. 5 uncredited, "The Vamp" uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" uncredited, "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" uncredited, "We Have Been Around" uncredited, "Carolina in the Morning" uncredited, "Don't Be Too Old Fashioned Old Fashioned Girl" uncredited, "Powder, Lipstick and Rouge" uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" uncredited, "The Sidewalks of New York" uncredited | |
The All-Star Bond Rally | 1945 | Short performer: "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited | |
Diamond Horseshoe | 1945 | performer: "Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe", "In Acapulco", "I Wish I Knew", "A Nickel's Worth of Jive", "You'll Never Know", "Shoo Shoo, Baby", "Dessert Finale", "The Old and the New Prelude" - uncredited | |
Pin Up Girl | 1944 | performer: "You're My Little Pin Up Girl", "Don't Carry Tales out of School", "Once Too Often", "The Story of the Very Merry Widow" - uncredited | |
Four Jills in a Jeep | 1944 | performer: "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" - uncredited | |
Sweet Rosie O'Grady | 1943 | performer: "My Heart Tells Me Should I Believe My Heart?" | |
Coney Island | 1943 | performer: "Coney Island", "Cuddle Up a Little Closer", "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey I Never Knew Any Girl Like You", "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", "Winter, Winter", "Pretty Baby", "Miss Lulu from Louisville", "Take It from There", "There's Danger in a Dance" | |
Springtime in the Rockies | 1942 | performer: "Run, Little Raindrop, Run", "A Poem Set to Music", "Pan American Jubilee" | |
Footlight Serenade | 1942 | performer: "Are You Kiddin'?", "I'm Still Crazy for You", "Land on Your Feet", "I Heard the Birdies Sing", "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited | |
Song of the Islands | 1942 | performer: "Down on Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle" 1942, "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" 1942, "Maluna Malolo Mawaena Hawaiian Drinking Song" 1942, "O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian" 1942, "The Lily of Killarney" 1862 uncredited | |
A Yank in the R.A.F. | 1941 | performer: "Hi-Ya, Love", "Another Little Dream Won't Do Us Any Harm" - uncredited | |
Moon Over Miami | 1941 | "You Started Something" 1941 / performer: "What Can I Do For You?" 1941, "Miami Oh Me, Oh Mi-Ami" 1941, "You Started Something" 1941, "Loveliness and Love" 1941, "Kindergarten Conga" 1941 | |
Tin Pan Alley | 1940 | performer: "K-K-K-Katy" 1918, "Honeysuckle Rose" 1929, "Moonlight and Roses" 1925 uncredited, "The Sheik of Araby" 1921 uncredited / producer: "Honeysuckle Rose" 1929, "Moonlight and Roses" 1925 uncredited | |
Down Argentine Way | 1940 | performer: "Down Argentina Way" 1940, "Two Dreams Met" 1940 - uncredited | |
Man About Town | 1939 | performer: "FIDGETY JOE" | |
Give Me a Sailor | 1938 | performer: "What Goes On Here in My Heart" | |
College Swing | 1938 | performer: "College Swing", "What A Rumba Does To Romance" | |
This Way Please | 1937 | performer: "Is It Love or Is It Infatuation?" | |
Follow the Fleet | 1936 | "Let Yourself Go" 1936, uncredited | |
Collegiate | 1936 | performer: "Rhythmatic", "You Hit the Spot" | |
Old Man Rhythm | 1935 | performer: "There's Nothing Like a College Education", "Boys Will Be Boys", "Old Man Rhythm" | |
The Nitwits | 1935 | "Music in My Heart" 1935 / performer: "Music in My Heart" 1935 | |
The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | performer: "Let's K-nock K-nees" 1931 | |
Student Tour | 1934 | performer: "The Snake Dance" 1934, "A New Moon Is Over My Shoulder" 1934 | |
Love Detectives | 1934 | Short performer: "I Thought I Wanted You" | |
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | 1933 | performer: "It's Spring Again" | |
The Kid from Spain | 1932 | performer: "But We Must Rise The College Song" 1932 - uncredited | |
Whoopee! | 1930 | performer: "Cowboys" 1930 - uncredited |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Eddie Fisher Show | 1957 | TV Series | Herself |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Herself |
Screen Snapshots Series 34, No. 6: Hollywood Shower of Stars | 1955 | Short | Herself |
Shower of Stars | 1954 | TV Series | Herself |
The Walter Winchell Show | 1953 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Hollywood Park | 1946 | Short | Herself |
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | 1941 | Documentary short | Herself - at Mocambo (uncredited) |
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 | 1938 | Documentary short | Herself |
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 10 | 1937 | Documentary short | Herself |
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 | 1937 | Documentary short | Herself |
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | 1936 | Short | Herself |
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 11 | 1936 | Documentary short | Herself |
The Hollywood Squares | 1969-1973 | TV Series | Herself |
The 44th Annual Academy Awards | 1972 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Music Awards |
Password All-Stars | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
The Fabulous Fordies | 1972 | TV Special | Herself |
Name Droppers | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
The Carol Burnett Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1965-1967 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
What's My Line? | 1965-1967 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest #2 / Herself - Mystery Guest |
The Hollywood Palace | 1964 | TV Series | Herself - Hostess |
The Andy Williams Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
The George Burns Show | 1960 | TV Special | Betty Grable |
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1956-1960 | TV Series | Herself |
Some of Manie's Friends | 1959 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Bob Hope Show | 1955-1958 | TV Series | Herself |
The 30th Annual Academy Awards | 1958 | TV Special | Herself - Performer |
The Jerry Lewis Show | 1958 | TV Special | Herself |
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour | 1958 | TV Series | Herself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Casting By | 2012 | Documentary | Herself |
Love Lust | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
War Stories with Oliver North | 2005-2006 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Larry King Live | 2002 | TV Series | Loco Dempsey |
I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | |
Biography | 1995-1999 | TV Series documentary | Herself / Glenda Crawford |
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me | 1997 | Video documentary | Herself |
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
The Casting Couch | 1995 | Video documentary | |
Entertaining the Troops | 1988 | Documentary | Herself |
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | 1987 | Documentary | Loco Dempsey |
Showbiz Goes to War | 1982 | TV Movie | |
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Actress - 'Three for the Show' (uncredited) |
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 | 1980 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
All This and World War II | 1976 | Documentary | Herself |
Bob Hope's World of Comedy | 1976 | TV Movie | Herself |
Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals | 1974 | TV Movie | Herself |
Hollywood Blue | 1970 | Documentary | Herself |
Film Preview | 1966 | TV Series | Eileen O'Brien |
Hollywood My Home Town | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
The Love Goddesses | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
Hollywood and the Stars | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
Marilyn | 1963 | Documentary | Herself (scene from "How to Marry a Millionaire") (uncredited) |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1955 | TV Series | Herself |
The Costume Designer | 1950 | Short | |
Hollywood Bound | 1947 | ||
The All-Star Bond Rally | 1945 | Short | Herself - edited from: Footlight Serenade |
Wing and a Prayer | 1944 | Harem Girl (edited from: Tin Pan Alley) (uncredited) | |
Take It or Leave It | 1944 | Clip from 'Tin Pan Alley' (uncredited) |
Awards
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6525 Hollywood Blvd. |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia