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8 unusual facts about Betty Grable


Girl with Ball

The updated Betty Grable-type subject, was a fashionable glamor figure that Lichtenstein used for a symbolic value that ranks her with "iconoclastic female figures, including Manet's Olympia, 1863, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and de Kooning's three series of Women".

Grable

Betty Grable (1916–1973), an American dancer, singer, and actress

Jack Norton

Norton's first film work was for a musical short, School for Romance, in 1934, in which a young Betty Grable appeared, but his scenes were deleted.

Jerry Berger

He was also a press agent and publicist with such personalities as Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leonard Bernstein, Liza Minnelli, Arthur Rubinstein, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Vincent Price, Charlton Heston, and Rudolf Nureyev, among others.

Murray Grand

During World War II, he served as an infantryman in U.S. Army and played piano accompaniment for USO Tour stars including Gypsy Rose Lee and Betty Grable.

Sally Swing

Betty Boop, auditioning bandleaders for a college swing dance, "discovers" a cleaning woman who resembles Betty Grable.

The Whitby

In fact, The Whitby has a definite "mystique", with legendary celebrities such as Doris Day and Betty Grable listed among former residents.

Trude Berliner

Her last movie was a small uncredited role as a German actress in the musical The Dolly Sisters in 1945 starring Betty Grable, June Haver and C.Z. Sakall.


Karl Tunberg

His first feature film was You Can't Have Everything (1937), after which he provided scripts for several comedies and musicals featuring such stars as Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Deanna Durbin, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Temple.

Leif Erickson

Erickson made his film debut in two 1933 band films with Betty Grable before starting a string of Buster Crabbe western films based on Zane Grey novels.

Michigan Building

In addition to films in its prime years, the theatre hosted performances of bands led by John Philip Sousa, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James as well as live performances by The Marx Brothers, Betty Grable and Bob Hope.

Pickup on South Street

Fuller turned down many actresses for the lead role including studio favorites Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, who looked too glamorous, Betty Grable, who wanted a dance number written in, and initially Jean Peters who he didn't like when he saw film of her in Captain from Castile.

Robert Alton

He learned stage direction from John Murray Anderson and during his Broadway career he was instrumental in furthering the careers of Ray Bolger, John Brascia, Don Crichton, Betty Grable, Gene Kelly, Sheree North, Vera-Ellen and Charles Walters, among others.

The Lady in Ermine

It was remade again in 1948 by 20th Century-Fox as That Lady in Ermine, starring Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.


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