Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another star-struck adolescent, blonde Betty Hansen knew what she wanted when she left Lincoln, Neb. recently for Hollywood. She "wanted to get into the movies." Last week Miss Hansen told a Los Angeles grand jury her version of her career.
In Hollywood Betty kept a sharp eye out for film contacts. Three turned up in the persons of a trio of youthful Warner Bros, employes. Betty frankly admitted that she had been intimate with all three.
One day last September came a once-in-a-lifetime chance of the kind that Hollywood pictures have long made commonplace. One of her young men invited Betty to a swimming-dancing party at the Bel-Air mansion of British Sportsman Fred McEvoy.
There Betty met Errol Flynn. "After dinner," she said, "he asked me to go upstairs with him."
Bad blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was...