Betty Garrett
- Recitazione
- 23 maggio 1919 · Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
- 12 febbraio 2011
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.
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Filmografia
- Carol Channing: Larger Than Life · In persona
- Troupers
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing · (archive footage)
- Dark and Stormy Night · Mrs. Hausenstout
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical · In persona
- Trail of the Screaming Forehead · Mrs. Cuttle
- Grey's Anatomy · Eleanor
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · In persona
- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer · In persona
- Boston Public · Miriam Guber
- Frank Sinatra Memorial · In persona
- Becker · Mrs. Firth
- The Long Way Home · Veronica
- Union Square · Agnes
- Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman · In persona
- Townies
- That's Entertainment! III · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Good Life · Phyllis
- Blacke's Magic
- Cuori senza età · Sarah
- That's Dancing! · Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
- La signora in giallo · Kit Parkins, Martha Neilson
- All the Way Home · Catherine
- Mr. Merlin
- Love Boat · Martha McCoy
- Laverne & Shirley · Edna Babish
- Dinah! · In persona
- C'era una volta Hollywood · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory · In persona
- Great Performances · Mary Hallen
- Arcibaldo · Irene Lorenzo, Irene
- The Fugitive · Margaret Ruskin
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · In persona
- L'ombra alla finestra · Linda Atlas
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · In persona
- Mia sorella Evelina · Ruth Sherwood
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · In persona
- The Costume Designer · In persona
- Un giorno a New York · Brunhilde Esterhazy
- La figlia di Nettuno · Betty Barrett
- Facciamo il tifo insieme · Shirley Delwyn
- Parole e musica · Peggy Lorgan McNeil
- La legge del cuore · Shoo Shoo Grady