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Betty Garrett

1919-05-23 Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

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Biografia

Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, who starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement. As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.

Películas

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Self 2012-01-20
Troupers 2011-06-01
Dark and Stormy Night Mrs. Hausenstout 2009-10-10
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing Self 2009-12-31
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical Self 2008-01-10
Trail of the Screaming Forehead Mrs. Cuttle 2007-06-08
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Self 2003-04-03
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer Self 2002-09-24
Frank Sinatra Memorial Self 2000-05-16
The Long Way Home Veronica 1998-03-01
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman Self 1996-11-25
That's Entertainment! III (archive footage) 1994-07-01
That's Dancing! Ruth Sherwood (archive footage) 1985-01-18
All the Way Home Catherine 1981-12-21
That's Entertainment! (archive footage) (uncredited) 1974-06-21
Hollywood: The Dream Factory Self (archive footage) 1972-01-10
The Shadow on the Window Linda Atlas 1957-03-06
My Sister Eileen Ruth Sherwood 1955-09-22
The Costume Designer Self (archive footage) 1950-07-13
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Shirley Delwyn 1949-03-09
Neptune's Daughter Betty Barrett 1949-06-10
On the Town Brunhilde Esterhazy 1949-12-08
Big City Shoo Shoo Grady 1948-03-25
Words and Music Peggy Lorgan McNeil 1948-12-31