Betty Lawford

Betty Lawford

Born: February 1, 1912
Died: November 20, 1960
in London, England, UK
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Betty Lawford (February 1, 1912 – November 20, 1960) was a United States-based English film and stage actress.

Her parents, Ernest Lawford and Janet Slater Lawford, were also actors, and she was a cousin of the actor and socialite Peter Lawford.

Lawford's stage debut came in a Players' Club production of Henry IV. She followed that with appearances in Julius Caesar and The Lady Lies. Her Broadway credits include Glamour Preferred (1940), Walk With Music (1940), The Women (1936), There's Wisdom in Women (1935), Heat Wave (1931), The Lady Lies (1928), and King Henry IV, Part I (1926).

She was briefly married to the American actor-director Monta Bell.

She died at Roosevelt Hospital, Manhattan, following an illness of three weeks.

Movies for Betty Lawford...

The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Title: The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Character: Agnes Smith
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Betty Lawford
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Helen Tuttle
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Betty Walker
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Countess Jane Campanella
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Alma Hastings
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Gallant Lady
Title: Gallant Lady
Character: Cynthia Haddon
Released: December 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
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Berkeley Square
Title: Berkeley Square
Character: Marjorie Frant
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Rose
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
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Secrets of a Secretary
Title: Secrets of a Secretary
Character: Sylvia Merritt
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
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Old English
Title: Old English
Character: Phyllis
Released: August 12, 1930
Type: Movie
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mary Watson
Released: October 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
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Lucky In Love
Title: Lucky In Love
Released: August 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Michael O'More, an American who lives in Ireland with his uncle, a horsetrainer for the Earl of Balkerry, loves Lady Mary Cardigan, granddaughter of the Earl. He finds a rival in Capt. Brian Fitzroy, a rake who intends to buy the impoverished earl's castle and marry Lady Mary. After nearly killing Fitzroy in a brawl over Lady Mary, Michael flees to the United States. There he becomes financially secure when department store magnate Abe Feinberg offers him a job. Feinberg commissions Michael to establish a linen mill on the earl's estate. He and Mary, who is in the United States evading Fitzroy, return to Ireland and marry.
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Gentlemen of the Press
Title: Gentlemen of the Press
Character: Dorothy Snell Hanley
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.