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Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer.. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she placed among the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars (a feat only matched by Doris Day, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, although all were ...
Million Dollar Legs is a 1939 American comedy film starring Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Hartley and Donald O'Connor. The film has no relation to the W. C. Fields movie from seven years earlier also entitled Million Dollar Legs.
Betty Grable imprinted her leg. Emma Watson imprinted Hermione Granger's wand. Rupert Grint imprinted Ron Weasley's wand. Daniel Radcliffe imprinted Harry Potter's wand. Harold Lloyd imprinted his eyeglasses. Whoopi Goldberg imprinted her dreadlocks. Marilyn Monroe imprinted her earring. Yoshiki imprinted his drumsticks.
Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang. [4] This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young. It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to this time, earning more ...
The studio was unable to find Darnell suitable roles. In late 1940, Fox chose her for the main role in Song of the Islands (1942), a Hawaiian musical film which eventually starred Betty Grable. [15] After Blood and Sand, she was set to co-star with Claudette Colbert in Remember the Day (1941), but another actress was eventually cast.
In 2001, Lowe wrote The Boy with the Betty Grable Legs: A Showbiz Memoir. [10] Martin Short cited him as the inspiration for his character Jiminy Glick. [11] It is estimated that Lowe conducted some 6,000 cable-television interviews from 1978 to 2014. He was openly gay. [12] [13]
Diamond Horseshoe (also billed as Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe) is a 1945 American musical film starring Betty Grable, Dick Haymes and William Gaxton (in his final feature film role), directed and co-written by George Seaton, and released by 20th Century Fox.
Betty Grable (1916–1973) in her famous 1943 pin-up. It was shot by studio photographer Frank Powolny and became one of the biggest-selling photographs of World War II, selling over five million copies. This is a complete filmography of Betty Grable, an American actress, dancer, and singer.