Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress...
Betty Grable up there on the screen is about all that millions of U.S. moviegoers really want. This week, the Grable fans who flock to see her latest picture, a Technicolored trifle called That Lady in Ermine (20th Century-Fox), will be bitterly disappointed if it is not very much...
In a business fraught with hazardous gambling and desperate financial uncertainties, Betty Grable comes about as close as Hollywood can get to a surefire, gilt-edged investment. The profits from her movies (something like $15 million over the last eight years) have left her boss, Producer Darryl Zanuck, free to...
Each week, some 10,000 admirers (zealously cheered on by her studio's press-agents) take the trouble to write Betty fan mail. For six years U.S. theater managers have ranked her among the top ten in box-office pull.
Around 3 a.m., Betty called it a night. When she got back to her Park Avenue apartment there was her mother, still up and indignant. Cried Mrs. Faulkner: "You gypped me." Betty soothed her. Next month, she promised, mother was going to get a really big party to celebrate her...