#OnThisDay in 1973, #BettyGrable, American stage and screen #actress (I Wake Up Screaming; How to Marry a Millionaire: The Gay Divorcée), pin-up girl, dancer, and singer, died of #lungcancer at 56.
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1973, #BettyGrable, American stage and screen #actress (I Wake Up Screaming; How to Marry a Millionaire: The Gay Divorcée), pin-up girl, dancer, and singer, died of #lungcancer at 56.
#RIP
Betty Grable (1916 – 1973) American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer
#BettyGrable #oldhollywood
Betty Grable (1916 – 1973) American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model and singer
#BettyGrable #oldhollywood
Betty Grable (1916 – 1973) American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model and singer
#BettyGrable #oldhollywood
#OnThisDay in 1916, #BettyGrable, American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and #actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1973).
#RIP
Betty Grable missed out on a role in Samuel Goldwyn's Guys and Dolls in 1955, because she didn’t attend a meeting with him as her Dog had broken its leg. Goldwyn was peed off by that and gave the role to Vivian Blaine.
On her birthday, 10 things you didn't know about Betty Grable.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/12/18-december-betty-grable.html
Betty Grable (1916 – 1973) American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model and singer
#BettyGrable #oldhollywood
Photo of the Day
the million dollar legs
Posing for promotional photos was required under Betty Grable’s contract with Twentieth Century Fox; but when she arrived at the movie studio for a previously scheduled photo session in 1943, she had a problem.
Betty had recently married band leader Harry James and was pregnant with her first child.
And she had a ‘baby bump.’
#BettyGrable, #LaurenBacall and #MarilynMonroe on the set of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).
“Which Stars Have Real ‘VICTORY APPEAL’?
“In the eyes of Ira Hankins, USN, Betty Grable has Victory Appeal. She's a whiz on her movie job and she puts plenty of zip into her work at Army camps, the Naval Aid Auxiliary and the Hollywood canteen.“
—Screen Guide, Mar. 1943
I just watched I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wake_Up_Screaming?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #IWakeUpScreaming #BettyGrable #VictorMature #CaroleLandis #LairdCregar #ElishaCookJr
I just watched How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953) and rated it 6/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Marry_a_Millionaire?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #HowToMarryAMillionaire #BettyGrable #MarilynMonroe #LaurenBacall
Betty Grable (1916 – 1973) American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer
#BettyGrable #oldhollywood
Gwen Verdon in a featured dancing role with Betty Grable • The Farmer Takes A Wife • 1953
#BettyGrable of St. Louis, a platinum blond, blue-eyed Hollywood starlet had legs that inspired American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Betty represented the flesh-and-blood “girl back home."
Frank Powlony was taking publicity pictures of the actress for the 1943 film Sweet Rosie O’Grady when she agreed to a “back shot.” The studio turned the coy pose into one of the earliest pinups, and soon troops were requesting 50,000 copies every month.
I probably will have to finish watching tomorrow, but #amwatching the #BettyGrable #musical with choreography by #HermesPan, PIN UP GIRL (1944)
I like the fact that there's a musical number within the first 5 minutes!
https://youtu.be/J-uqntO7ZrM
#BettyGrable, #LaurenBacall and #MarilynMonroe on the set of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).