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Betty Grable: Movies
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"Always the Ladys: Alice Faye, Betty Grable" [2-CD's with songs from movies. Jack Oakie is even in there! As well as John Payne, Carmen Miranda, June Havoc and so many others. These songs are taken right off the movies so they are exactly like you remember them...talking and all!]
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Betty Grable movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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As stated before, Betty Grable's life was short. On July 2, 1973, at age 56, she died of lung cancer. She was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. During her entire acting career she had acted in 84 movies, stage plays or television presentations.
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In That Lady in Ermine, the all-American Grable is incongruously plugged into a Lubitchian Mittle-European duchy. Grable multiplies the misrule by playing a double role. She is both a 19th Century "sweet thing" named Angelina, Countess of the principality of Bergamo, and the dangerous Francesca, Angelina's ancestor from the 16th Century. The movie weaves together the parallel stories of the two women. It's a Bakhtinian carnival all the way with Safe Betty (Angelina) always somehow under the abiding influence of Unruly Betty (Francesca). The first frames of the movie track through the "Ancestors' Gallery" in Angelina's castle, full of historic paintings of men and women in appropriately gender defined clothing and postures.
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Grable was made for Technicolor and with her flawless beauty, girl-next-door sweetness, spunky humor, and innocent sexuality it’s easy to see how Grable became the biggest star of the era. Oh yea, and she was a hell of a dancer and singer too! Grable’s first big Hollywood film appearance was in the Fred Astair /Ginger Rogers movie Follow The Fleet where her solo dance number stole the spotlight. In this movie, and in all her Fox musicals, she gets to strut her stuff in several big production numbers that rivaled anything MGM or the other studios were producing. Betty was a knockout performer and her sense of fun and joy at performing comes across loud and clear. She is a delight to watch.
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Grable's later career was marked by feuds with studio heads. At one point, in the middle of a fight with Darryl F. Zanuck, she tore up her contract and stormed out of his office. Gradually leaving movies entirely, she made the transition to television and starred in Las Vegas. In 1967, she took over the lead in the touring company of Hello, Dolly, and in 1973 starred in a new musical called Belle Starr in London. The play was savaged by critics, and soon folded.
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