Betty Grable

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. All of her other stuff is just not my thing.

I agree r1

When everyone things you’re someone else

FUN FACT: She remade one of her hit movies in less than a decade.

In 1943, she starred in the 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical "CONEY ISLAND" (opposite George Montgomery), which was remade in 1950 as another 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical "WABASH AVENUE" (opposite Victor Mature).

Mother wore tights

I wake up screaming (non-musical)

Sweet Rosie O’Grady

Down Argentine Way

Springtime in the Rockies

That's off the top of my head. Any of her technical color 1940s movies should do the trick, plus many feature the delightful and unique Carmen Miranda.

One of my favorite numbers with her tapping in wedgies...

Down Argentine Way and How To Marry A Millionaire are my two BG favorites.

She was the FOX blonde for a decade.....and then she said to Marilyn: "I've had mine, honey. Go get yours!"

Some fun deleted scenes and out takes with Alice Faye.

Most of her musicals were the same. Remaking one would hardly make a difference. Nobody watched Betty Grable movies for plots.

That's why her best movie by far was How to Marry a Millionaire. It didn't follow the same formula and was only 1/3 Betty Grable.

There’s something so gaudy about Fox musicals compared to the ones that MGM made. Maybe it’s the production quality r2. Is that it? And Betty, while an attractive young woman, was always overdone in the hair and makeup department.

R7, I was more focused on the handsome John Payne in that clip!

With Gwen and beef...

The Shocking 😳 Miss Pilgrim.

[quote]Some fun deleted scenes and out takes with Alice Faye.

Coincidentally, I'm listening to the Phil Harris/Alice Faye (radio) Show on SiriusXM right now.

What was the name of the film where Betty played an actress who after her paramour complains about the odor coming from her Downtown Suzy, goes to her OB/GYN who discovers a used condom stuck inside of her...

r14=Harry James

I understand that it was…up there for three days. She picked up a soldier at the Hollywood Canteen or something like that. I’m guessing that she was married to Harry at the time?

She IS Betty Grable!

I much preferred Alice Faye.

The costumes for those hunks at r12 are very much in the aesthetic of the muscle boys in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love" - "flesh-toned" skivvies with black trim at the hem. I think I even recognize some of those muscle boys from the other number, in spite of the hideous slathering of make-up and wigs that all but obscures their sexiness.

Neik Sedakas beautiful tribute to Betty. Came out a year after she passed away

While I love Betty Grable, I think her storyline is the weakest of the three in Millionaire .

[quote]I just discovered Betty Grable and have been on a Betty kick.

Said no one ever, including Harry James.

I've been on a VV kick

Who'd have ever thought a Melanie Mayron thread would outdo a Betty Grable thread on DL.

The times really are a'changin' on DL.

I wish I had seen her in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway. I understand they added a moment where she lifts up her skirt and shows the audience her famous gams.

They removed that when Helen Lawson took over, for obviious reasons.

R25, yes they did that. She was quite good, gave a very Betty Grable-type straight Dolly, was rather lovable. In the 'big number in the restaurant, on the lyric "Wow, wow, wow, fellas, look at the old gal now, fellas"' she was at stage right, just at the runway, leaned against the proscenium, and on the lyric lifted her skirt up to above her knee, and showed a bit of leg, and the house went wild. It was such natural choreography, just fitted the character and the show. She did it every performance. Nightly fans gathered at the stage door, yet nightly she left inside the theater and tossed over into David Merrick's office in the adjoining building east, came out that street door. Fans would run over, it was a bit scary. Of the several replacement Dollys, the house staff said Grable and Phyllis Diller were just the best.

Love your post Edga, thank you! I'll take it to sleep with me tonight for sweet dreams.

My favorite of her movies is SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES, which has a hummable score, and when I was a kid watching her movies on TV (and they were on all the time) I also loved MOTHER WORE TIGHTS and THE DOLLY SISTERS. The latter attempts to be a kind of musical noir, and there are some experiments with the Technicolor: When Grable and June Haver are in Paris, all the sets are in shades of white.

Neill Sedaka loved her

She coulda had class, she coulda been a contenda, she coulda been somebody

Where is R27?

Where is R27?

She started as an extra chorus girl in films in 1929, when she was only 13. She made lots of short films, which I've been hunting down. I've seen maybe a dozen or so and have that many more to find.

I think Springtime in the Rockies turned me gay

I LOVE Betty Grable, Alice Faye and all the Fox technicolor musicals. For one thing, the leading men were usually much sexier than at stuffy old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

R20, R30. For FUCK'S sake!! It's "Neil"!

Carol Burnett bought Betty Grable's mansion and had her visit it after she guest starred on the Carol Burnett Show. She died soon after...coincidence?

A Yank in the RAF is not a musical, but a very fun movie with Betty Grable, Tyrone Power and the adorable Reginald Gardiner (one of my fave character actors)

OP is Fred Mertz.

R21 I just watched it again recently. She and Rory Calhoun had decent chemistry (they were fucking in real life iirc) but most of their storyline seemed to happen offscreen. I wanted to see more of them, and less Bacall/Cam Mitchell

and then she said to Marilyn: "I've had mine, honey. Go get yours!"

That comment has also been attributed to Betty saying it about Mitzi Gaynor.

She looks rather homely in “How to Marry“

Betty was reportedly very rude to director Preston Sturges on The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend.

R42 I hadn't heard that.....but Mitzi was eavesdropping.

Today is Betty's birthday - she would have been 108! Could still possibly have been with us.

R46. It's a shame when they pass young...

There's a fun read on Grable, published October 1986 by G.P. Putman's Sons, and a later paperback by Berkeley Books done in November 1987, PIN-UP, The Tragedy of Betty Grable. Maybe a copy can be found., Ya' gotta' love her .... "I'm no great shakes as an actress -- but I think I've entertained a few people."

[quote]I'm listening to the Phil Harris/Alice Faye (radio) Show on SiriusXM right now.

You're the one.

[quote]That comment has also been attributed to Betty saying it about Mitzi Gaynor.

Um, no.

Was she gay friendly?

Mitzi's first film was the Betty Grable starrer My Blue Heaven. Mitzi said she was so starstruck she would even follow Betty into the bathroom.

The used condom story is attributed to Tyrone Power, but so don’t believe it. He had a reputation as a perfect gentleman with men and women

R49. Alice Faye was the worst part of that radio show.

Alice Faye really downgraded when she went from Tony Martin to Phil Harris

Is no one going to mention that her first husband was Charlie Chaplin's kid sidekick, aka Jackie Coogan, who later originated the role of 'Uncle Fester' in the '60s ADDAMS FAMILY TV series.

I assume Betty's real singing voice was used in all of her film musicals but, if so, I find it curious, that unlike Alice Faye, she never had hit records. But maybe Fox knew not to push Betty as a vocalist.

"You'll Never Know" will make me love Alice Faye for all-time. Supposedly, in the early 40s Alice's recordings outsold even Judy Garland.

[quote]You'll Never Know" will make me love Alice Faye for all-time.

100% agree. One of the greatest of all time.

When Jackie Coogan was in the army, when he met someone he would stick out his hand and ask: "Would you like to shake the hand that shook the dick that fucked Betty Grable?"