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| ::About:: ::Current layout || Betty Grable:: The celebrated "pin-up girl" of World WarII, American actress Betty Grable was the daughter of a stockbroker and an aggressive "stage mother." When her older sister Marjorie balked at a show business career, Grable was taken in hand by her mother and trained to sing, dance, tell jokes and play the ukulele and saxophone. Despite her father's objections, Grable begged her mother to take her to Los Angeles for a movie career, preparing herself with a two-girl musical act while attending Hollywood Professional School. Lying about her age, 13-year-old Grable was hired as a chorus girl for short subjects, getting her first important exposure as the energetic blonde "cowgirl" who sings the first chorus of the first song in the Eddie Cantor film musical Whoopee! (1930). Grable was enormously popular with American GIs during the war, most of this popularity resting on her famous "pin-up" picture in which, dressed in a one-piece bathing suit and with her back to the camera, Grable glanced saucily over one shoulder. This rear-view image was borne not out of a desire to titillate but from necessity: she was several months pregnant when the picture was taken! To prove that Betty was that popular, Fox had insured her gorgeous legs for a whopping one million dollars. Grable furthered her acceptance with the overseas troops when she married trumpeter-bandleader Harry James in 1943. Her popularity undimmed by war's end, Grable continued making Technicolor frolics. After divorcing Harry James in 1965, Grable made a triumphal return to Broadway. Subsequent surgeries and treatment proved unsuccessful, and on July 2nd, 1973 at the age of 56, Betty Grable died of lung cancer. During her 44 year career, she had appeared in 84 films, conquered Broadway, been immortalized in the cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, and became one of America's most beloved stars. Betty is survived by her daughters Victoria Elizabeth James and Jessica James. |
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Nikki, 27, December 5, Christian, American, part Scottish, English, & Spanish, nice person, loves to help people, friendly, good sense of humor, old-fashioned, classy. Something to know -- "I'm a good friend, but don't take advantage of me." :) :: LOVES:: God, family, pets, animals, old movies, big band music, 1940s clothes & hairstyles, Disneyland, Victorian era, Road to Avonlea, Wind at my Back, I Love Lucy, The Cosby Show, Pearl Harbor, Titanic, Anne of Green Gables, PEI, Pirates of the Caribbean (everything), Chicago: the movie, classical music, 1920s flappers, jazz, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters, OTR (Old Time Radio), silent movies, designing graphics, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, the Mummy series, the older Disney movies and their soundtracks, Sense & Sensibility, musicals, Frankie & Annette, Brendan Fraser, The Notebook, Canada, Italian food, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, the Andy Hardy series, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Affleck. ::Completely In Love With:: :: DISLIKES:: cheaters, clowns, mushrooms, broccoli, anxiety attacks, bugs, low-class, arrogance, snakes, people with no morals, tatoos, computer viruses, internet pop-ups, rudeness, people who take advantage, control freaks, liars. |
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