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Betsy Palmer

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November 1, 1929 in East Chicago, IN
Biography:Direct from Chicago's DePaul University, "Betsy Palmer" underwent intensive training at New York's Actors Studio, supporting herself as a secretary. She made her professional bow in stock in Wisconsin and Illinois in 1950; one year later, she made the first of hundreds of TV appearances. In 1955, Palmer first appeared on Broadway in The Grand Prize, and that same year launched her sporadic film career. Later stage credits included Forty Carats, in which she successfully replaced Lauren Bacall, and extensive touring in the role of Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific." To millions of baby-boomers, Palmer will forever be associated with her work as a panelist on such TV game shows as "I've Got a Secret;" a later generation of televiewers will most readily recall her as Virginia Bullock on the 1989-90 season of Knot's Landing. To those whose teen years coincided with the late 1970s and early 1980s, however,... Full Biography
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