Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava...
Born. To David Rose, 39, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings), onetime husband of Cinemactresses Martha Raye and Judy Garland;* and Betty Bigelow Rose, 21, ex-Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Lee. Weight: 61bs.
Six months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive...
Funniest spot in the show: a jump version of Hamlet in which Betty plays a scraggy, wild-eyed Ophelia. At her noisiest in her songs, she has the force of a pneumatic drill and the range of a fire siren.
Director John Farrow not only helped to write a pretty lively script, but managed to keep his highly volatile star and story under control. Also doing double duty is Songwriter Frank Loesser who, besides contributing a nice burlesque of a marcelled thug named Hair-Do Lempke, composed the songs which...