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Betty Grable: Harry James
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In 1943, Betty Grable’s footprints became immortalized in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. In July of that year, Betty Grable married Harry James whom she had met earlier in the year. In March of the following year, Betty gave birth to a daughter. She was back on the set in August to make another film. Over the years, Zanuck worked Betty regardless of the fact that she was exhausted. She was suspended twice for refusing to act so she could rest.
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Grable married the famous former child actor, Jackie Coogan in 1937. But the marriage did not last long. It ended in divorce three years later in 1940. In 1943 Grable married jazz trumpeter and band leader Harry James. They had two children together. Her second marriage lasted 23 years. The couple divorced in 1965.
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After divorcing Harry James in 1965, Grable made a triumphal return to Broadway as Carol Channing's replacement in {~Hello, Dolly}. Her later foray into musical comedy, {~Belle Starr}, was less satisfying, closing its London run after two weeks. Shortly before her death, Grable appeared in advertisements for a number of low-calorie food products, her alluring figure and beautiful gams belying her age.
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Girl-starved Animal is raving about Betty Grable to a bunch of other American prisoners of war in the 1953 Hollywood suspense-comedy Stalag 17. He has just heard that the movie beauty has married big-band leader Harry James. Animal broods. He has nothing left to live for. Musicians always get the girls.
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Grable died of lung cancer at age 56 in Santa Monica, California. Her funeral was held July 5, 1973, 30 years to the day after her marriage to Harry James -- who, in turn, died on what would have been his and Grable's 40th anniversary, July 5, 1983. She is interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.
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The Dolly Sisters (1945) is a more toned down and elegant affair than the previous Grable films due to it being filmed and distributed during the War. Grable and June Haver costar with John Payne in a beautiful tribute to the famous sisters who were big vaudeville stars in America and Europe before the First World War. Sister Jenny falls in love with songwriter Harry Fox while Rosie falls for a department store owner. In between the songs and dances the lovers fall apart and come back together as they all try to figure out how to make successful careers and love affairs work. This is one of Grable’s more substantial films and one of the ones that film historians usually point to when they discuss her career. Haver is ... a real beauty with talent to match and she and Grable make a great team in the production numbers.
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