Betty Grable

Betty Grable

Born: December 18, 1916
Died: July 2, 1973
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Grable was enrolled in Clark's Dancing School at the age of three. At age 13, Grable and her mother set out for Hollywood with the hopes of stardom. There she landed several minor parts in films such as Whoopee!, New Movietone Follies of 1930, Happy Days and Let's Go Places.

In 1932, she signed with RKO Radio Pictures. The bit parts continued for the next three years until Grable was cast in By Your Leave. One of her big roles was in College Swing.. When she landed the role of Glenda Crawford in Down Argentine Way, the public finally took notice of her. Stardom came through comedies such as Coney Island and Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Her famous pin-up pose during World War II adorned barracks all around the world. With that pin-up and as the star of lavish musicals, Betty became the highest-paid star in Hollywood in 1947. Later her studio 20th Century-Fox insured her legs for a million dollars.

Betty continued to be popular until the mid-1950s, when musicals went into a decline. Her last film was How to Be Very, Very Popular. She then concentrated on Broadway and nightclubs.

She was married to actor Jackie Coogan (1937–1939) and musician Harry James (1943–1965).

Betty Grable died at age 56 of lung cancer on July 2, 1973.

Movies for Betty Grable...

This Is Bob Hope...
Title: This Is Bob Hope...
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 29, 2017
Type: Movie
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
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Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Title: Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.
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The Casting Couch
Title: The Casting Couch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Title: Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Character: Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)
Released: April 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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Hollywood Blue
Title: Hollywood Blue
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 18, 1970
Type: Movie
A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
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Title: The Carol Burnett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 11, 1967
Type: TV
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
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The Love Goddesses
Title: The Love Goddesses
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 3, 1965
Type: Movie
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
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Title: The Hollywood Palace
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: TV
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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Marilyn
Title: Marilyn
Character: Self / Loco Dempsey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1963
Type: Movie
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
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Some of Manie's Friends
Title: Some of Manie's Friends
Released: March 10, 1959
Type: Movie
A multitude of entertainment's biggest stars come together to celebrate the life of the late Manie Sacks, recording executive for Columbia Records, and vice president of both NBC and RCA.
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Title: The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Character: Betty Grable
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: TV
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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How To Be Very, Very Popular
Title: How To Be Very, Very Popular
Character: Stormy Tornado
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.
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Three for the Show
Title: Three for the Show
Character: Julie Lowndes
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Title: How to Marry a Millionaire
Character: Loco Dempsey
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character: Molly Larkins
Released: June 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Meet Me After the Show
Title: Meet Me After the Show
Character: Delilah Lee
Released: August 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
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Call Me Mister
Title: Call Me Mister
Character: Kay Hudson
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
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My Blue Heaven
Title: My Blue Heaven
Character: Kitty Moran
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
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The Costume Designer
Title: The Costume Designer
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 13, 1950
Type: Movie
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct for the film historically and geographically, and must be appropriate for the mood of the individual scene. We see famed costume designer Edith Head at work on a production. The Costume Designer was part of The Industry Film Project, a twelve-part series produced by the film studios and the Academy. Each series episode was produced to inform the public on a specific facet of the motion picture industry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Wabash Avenue
Title: Wabash Avenue
Character: Ruby Summers
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Title: The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Character: Freddie
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
Title: When My Baby Smiles at Me
Character: Bonny Kane
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
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That Lady in Ermine
Title: That Lady in Ermine
Character: Francesca / Angelina
Released: August 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Mother Wore Tights
Title: Mother Wore Tights
Character: Mother
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Character: Cynthia Pilgrim
Released: January 4, 1947
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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Do You Love Me
Title: Do You Love Me
Character: Barry's Fan in Taxi (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
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The Dolly Sisters
Title: The Dolly Sisters
Character: Yansci 'Jenny' Dolly
Released: November 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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The All-Star Bond Rally
Title: The All-Star Bond Rally
Character: Pat Lambert (archive footage)
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Diamond Horseshoe
Title: Diamond Horseshoe
Character: Bonnie Collins
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. Which does Bonnie want more, the fur coat or true love? Plot is a framework for numerous Ziegfeld style stage productions.
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Character: Herself
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Pin Up Girl
Title: Pin Up Girl
Character: Lorry Jones
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Title: Four Jills in a Jeep
Character: Betty Grable
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
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Wing and a Prayer
Title: Wing and a Prayer
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Title: Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Character: Madeleine Marlowe/Rosie O'Grady
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Kate Farley
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Vicky Lane
Released: November 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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Footlight Serenade
Title: Footlight Serenade
Character: Pat Lambert
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
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Song of the Islands
Title: Song of the Islands
Character: Eileen O'Brien
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Jill Lynn
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Carol Brown
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Moon Over Miami
Title: Moon Over Miami
Character: Kathryn 'Kay' Latimer, also called Miss Adams
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Lily Blane
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Glenda Crawford
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Ina Firpo
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Carol Parker
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Susan Hayes
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: Joyce Gilmore
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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Give Me a Sailor
Title: Give Me a Sailor
Character: Nancy Larkin
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!
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College Swing
Title: College Swing
Character: Betty
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Title: Thrill of a Lifetime
Character: Gwen
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
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This Way Please
Title: This Way Please
Character: Jane Morrow
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
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Pigskin Parade
Title: Pigskin Parade
Character: Laura Watson
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Mildred Webster
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Title: Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
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Follow the Fleet
Title: Follow the Fleet
Character: Singer in Trio
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
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Collegiate
Title: Collegiate
Character: Dorothy
Released: January 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
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A Quiet Fourth
Title: A Quiet Fourth
Released: August 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
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Old Man Rhythm
Title: Old Man Rhythm
Character: Sylvia
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Drawing Rumors
Title: Drawing Rumors
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Title: A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Character: Vocalist
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Mary Roberts
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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The Spirit of 1976
Title: The Spirit of 1976
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
In the futuristic Utopian society of 1976, people, who have numbers instead of names, no longer have to work. They get tired of always playing, and revolt, eventually winning the right to work again.
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This Band Age
Title: This Band Age
Character: Betty - Band Singer
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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Ferry-Go-Round
Title: Ferry-Go-Round
Character: Betty
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Frances
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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The Gay Divorcee
Title: The Gay Divorcee
Character: Guest
Released: October 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Cayenne
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Susie's Affairs
Title: Susie's Affairs
Character: Susie Lee
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Susie and her pals pretend they're society swells.
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Business Is a Pleasure
Title: Business Is a Pleasure
Released: March 17, 1934
Type: Movie
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Love Detectives
Title: Love Detectives
Character: Alice
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Two young men compete for the affections of a beautiful blonde.
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Elmer Steps Out
Title: Elmer Steps Out
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
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School for Romance
Title: School for Romance
Character: Student
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
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Air Tonic
Title: Air Tonic
Character: Betty Grable - Band Singer
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Title: The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Character: Band Singer with Ted Fio Rito
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
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What Price Innocence?
Title: What Price Innocence?
Character: Beverly Bennett
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
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Melody Cruise
Title: Melody Cruise
Character: First Stewardess (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Child of Manhattan
Title: Child of Manhattan
Character: Lucy McGonagle
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Blonde Girl on Couch (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Girl on Couch
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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The Kid from Spain
Title: The Kid from Spain
Character: Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
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Over the Counter
Title: Over the Counter
Character: Customer Who Wants to Buy a Baby (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Barbara Jones
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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The Age of Consent
Title: The Age of Consent
Character: Student at Dormitory (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
College co-eds struggle with the moral, societal and human aspects of romance.
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Hollywood Lights
Title: Hollywood Lights
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
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The Flirty Sleepwalker
Title: The Flirty Sleepwalker
Character: Blonde Girl
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
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Probation
Title: Probation
Character: Ruth Jarrett
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
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Hollywood Luck
Title: Hollywood Luck
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
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Lady! Please!
Title: Lady! Please!
Character: Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed)
Released: February 28, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Once a Hero
Title: Once a Hero
Released: November 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A 1931 Comedy short.
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Palmy Days
Title: Palmy Days
Character: Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.
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Ex-Sweeties
Title: Ex-Sweeties
Character: Undetermined Minor Role
Released: April 12, 1931
Type: Movie
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Kiki
Title: Kiki
Character: Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.
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Whoopee!
Title: Whoopee!
Character: Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
Title: New Movietone Follies of 1930
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Chorus Woman
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.