Betty Farrington

Betty Farrington

Born: May 14, 1898
Died: February 3, 1989
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Betty Farrington (May 14, 1898 – February 3, 1989) was an American character actress active from the 1920s through 1960.

Born in Missouri's largest city, Kansas City, Betty Farrington would play mostly supporting and minor roles during her career, although she would occasionally be given a featured or leading part, appearing in almost 100 films during her career. Some of the more notable films she appeared in include: Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda; 1942's My Favorite Blonde and 1947's My Favorite Brunette, both starring Bob Hope; the classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), starring Fred MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson; 1944's The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey; Cecil B. Demille's Unconquered (1948), starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard; the epic Samson and Delilah (1950), with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in the title roles; Father of the Bride (1950), directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor; and Minnelli's 1953 The Band Wagon, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Her final big screen appearance would be in 1956's The Fastest Gun Alive, starring Glenn Ford. Farrington would make guest appearances on several television shows in the late 1950s, including Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and Perry Mason. She died in San Diego three-and-a-half months before her 91st birthday.

Movies for Betty Farrington...

The Fastest Gun Alive
Title: The Fastest Gun Alive
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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Too Young to Kiss
Title: Too Young to Kiss
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Woman
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Dietrichsons' Maid Nettie (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Mrs. Barkow (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Mrs. Prescott
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Elevator Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Stardust on the Sage
Title: Stardust on the Sage
Character: Mrs. Haskins
Released: May 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Woman on Bridge (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Dance Club Woman
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Doctors Don't Tell
Title: Doctors Don't Tell
Released: September 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Mother on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Mrs. Slocum, Depositor (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Woman Wanting Seat at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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In Old Missouri
Title: In Old Missouri
Character: Socialite
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Townswoman
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Mother Juror (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Hospital Cashier (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Frieda (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Second Complaining Wife (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Title: Down to Their Last Yacht
Character: Mrs. Weems (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Chocolate Malt and Chocolate Éclair Diner
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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The Iceman's Ball
Title: The Iceman's Ball
Character: The Hostess
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
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Man Wanted
Title: Man Wanted
Character: New Secretary (Uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Big Dame Hunting
Title: Big Dame Hunting
Released: January 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
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Anybody's War
Title: Anybody's War
Character: Camilla
Released: July 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.