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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.

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Topical Tens18 December: Betty GrableBetty Grable, US dancer, singer, and actress was born on this date in 1916. 10 facts about her: She was born Elizabeth Ruth Grable...

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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.’

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Photo of the Day · Photo of the DayBy Brenda Elthon

“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

#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.