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Betty Grable

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Birth Date:
18.12.1916
Death date:
03.07.1973
Person's maiden name:
Ruth Elizabeth Grable
Extra names:
Betty
Categories:
Actor, Model
Nationality:
 american
Cemetery:
Los Angeles, Inglewood Park Cemetery

Ruth Elizabeth "Betty" Grable  was an American actress, singer and pin-up girl, whose famous bathing suit poster was an icon of the World War II era.

Spouses

Jackie Coogan (m. 1937–39)(divorced)
Harry James (m. 1943–65)(divorced), two children

Partner(s)

Bob Remick (until her death)

Children

Victoria Elizabeth James (b. 1944)
Jessica James (b. 1947)

Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, she was propelled into acting by her mother, who insisted that one of her daughters become a star. For her first role, as a chorus girl in the film Let's Go Places (1930) Grable was legally under the age to act, but because the chorus line performed in blackface, it was impossible to tell how old she was. For her next film, her mother tried to get her to sign a contract using false I.D., but when this was discovered, she was fired. It was at this time that she was photographed in the pin-up poster that was so popular among American GIs ten years later. Grable finally obtained a role in Whoopee!, starring Eddie Cantor and eventually played in some twenty films by 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

In 1937, she married another famous child actor, Jackie Coogan, but Coogan was under considerable stress due to his lawsuit against his parents over his earnings, and they divorced in 1940. In 1943, she married jazz trumpeter and big band leader Harry James. They divorced in 1965. Grable's later career was marked by feuds with studio heads, who worked her to exhaustion. At one point, in the middle of a fight with Darryl F. Zanuck, she tore up her contract with him and stormed out of his office. Gradually leaving movies entirely, she made the transition to television, and starred in Las Vegas.

Betty Grable died of lung cancer in 1973 at the age of only 56 and was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Jackie CooganJackie CooganHusband26.10.191401.03.1984
        2Harry  JamesHarry JamesHusband15.10.191605.07.1983
        3Lee Ann RemickLee Ann RemickPartner14.12.193502.07.1991
        4Thelma LeedsThelma LeedsCoworker18.12.191027.05.2006
        5William TravillaWilliam TravillaCoworker22.03.192002.11.1990
        6Fred ClarkFred ClarkCoworker19.03.191405.12.1968
        7Buster CrabbeBuster CrabbeCoworker07.02.190823.04.1983
        8
        Sam WhiteCoworker16.10.190605.08.2006
        9Carl BallantineCarl BallantineCoworker27.09.191703.11.2009
        10Dick HaymesDick HaymesCoworker13.09.191828.03.1980
        11Jean AckerJean AckerCoworker23.10.189316.08.1978
        12John PayneJohn PayneCoworker23.05.191206.12.1989
        13Ginger RogersGinger RogersCoworker16.07.191125.04.1995
        14Fred AstaireFred AstaireCoworker10.05.189922.06.1987
        15John WayneJohn WayneCoworker26.05.190711.06.1979
        16Lauren BacallLauren BacallFamiliar16.09.192412.08.2014

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