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Betty Furness
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Actor Born: January 3, 1916 in New York City, NY Death: April 2, 1994 in New York City, NY Biography:It's very likely that "Betty Furness" would be forgotten today if she'd remained a film actress. The daughter of pioneering radio executive "George Furness", she landed her first modeling job at 14 and an RKO-Radio film contract two years later. From 1932 through 1935, she appeared in a string of forgettable ingénue roles in "Tom Keene" Westerns and B-melodramas. She exhibited an unexpected flair for screwball comedy in the 1936 "Hal Roach" production "Mister Cinderella", but wasn't able to capitalize on this career highlight and was out of pictures by 1939 (except for a cameo appearance as herself in 1957's "A Face in the Crowd"). She fared rather better on Broadway in the 1940s, and better still when she ventured into television in 1949. Though she still occasionally acted in the 1950s (she even starred in a "girl reporter" crime series), her TV fame rested securely on her work as a commercial... Full Biography
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