Betsy Blair
- Recitazione
- 11 dicembre 1923 · Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
- 13 marzo 2009
Biografia
Betsy Blair -December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. There she met Gene Kelly. They were married the following year, when she was seventeen years old. The couple divorced sixteen years later, in 1957. After work in the theatre, Blair began her film career playing supporting roles in films such as A Double Life (1947) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). Her interest in Marxism led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Blair was blacklisted for some time, but resumed her career with a critically acclaimed performance in Marty (1955), winning a BAFTA Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued her career with regular theatre, film and television work until the mid 1990s.
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Filmografia
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · In persona
- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer · In persona
- Rossella · Sister of Mercy
- Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair · Grace Simpson
- Betrayed - Tradita · Gladys Simmons
- In famiglia e con gli amici
- Suspicion · Lady McLaidlaw
- Discesa all'inferno · Mrs. Burns
- Maggie · Eulene Booker
- Flight of the Spruce Goose · Helen
- Month of the Doctors · Rose Pinneo
- American Playhouse · Lady McLaidlaw
- Il brivido dell'imprevisto · Mrs Wilbur
- Shades of Greene · Bobbie
- Un equilibrio delicato · Edna
- Great Performances · In persona
- De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee) · Vrouw van garagist
- Mazel Tov ou le Mariage · Second English Teacher
- Death of a Salesman · Linda
- BBC Play of the Month · Linda, Mrs. Winemiller
- Senilità · Amalia Brentani
- All Night Long · Emily
- I delfini · Contessa Rita Cherè
- Lies My Father Told Me · Mother
- Il grido · Elvia
- Il marchio dell'odio · Martha Halliday
- Calle Mayor · Isabel
- Rencontre à Paris · Nancy Blanding
- Marty - Vita di un timido · Clara
- Kind Lady · Ada Elcott
- Uomo bianco tu vivrai! · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- La strada del mistero · Jackie Elcott
- La fossa dei serpenti · Hester (uncredited)
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Un'altra parte della foresta · Birdie Bagtry
- Doppia vita · Girl in Wig Shop
- La colpa di Janet Ames · Katie