Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attainable Goal. As Betty herself readily admits, her talents are unremarkable. Unlike some other movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere...
Why do moviegoers flock to Betty's pictures with an ardent persistence they have never offered to other stars of greater beauty and larger gifts? Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a...
To millions of Americans, the pert, sexy, but basically "nice" girl that Betty plays on the screen is young American womanhood at its best. To the eager young man, the ambitious stenographer, the Hollywood-hungry mother resolutely dragging her little daughter off to dancing school, Betty represents an attainable goal...
Transparent Pantaloons. In this maudlin backstage romance, Betty was supposed to play second fiddle to Alice, Jack Oakie and John Payne. But full of the zest of triumph, she easily stole the show. Alley turned out to be the template for all the uncomplicated, uncluttered Grable musicals (Moon Over Miami...
Family Fans. Betty's marriage (in Las Vegas on July 5, 1943) to Harry Haag James, the trumpeter son of a circus bandmaster and an aerialist mother, was all that a fan-magazine editor could ask for. James himself is no minor breadwinner ($100,036 in 1946). When he...