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Betty Grable
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Actor Born: December 18, 1916 in South St. Louis, MO Death: July 2, 1973 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The celebrated "pin-up girl" of World War II, American actress "Betty Grable" was the daughter of a stockbroker and an aggressive "stage mother." When her older sister Marjorie balked at a show business career, Grable was taken in hand by her mother and trained to sing, dance, tell jokes and play the ukulele and saxophone. Despite her father's objections, Grable begged her mother to take her to Los Angeles for a movie career, preparing herself with a two-girl musical act while attending Hollywood Professional School. Lying about her age, 13-year-old Grable was hired as a chorus girl for short subjects, getting her first important exposure as the energetic blonde "cowgirl" who sings the first chorus of the first song in the "Eddie Cantor" film musical "Whoopee!" (1930).
Grable played supporting parts in two-reelers and bits in features for the next couple of years, attaining her first major role in... Full Biography
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