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Dark and Stormy Night

as Mrs. Hausenstout

2009
The Shadow on the Window

as Linda Atlas

1957
My Sister Eileen

as Ruth Sherwood

1955
On the Town

as Brunhilde Esterhazy

1949
Take Me Out to the Ball Game

as Shirley Delwyn

1949
Neptune's Daughter

as Betty Barrett

1949
Words and Music

as Peggy Lorgan McNeil

1948
Betty Garrett Betty Garrett

Birthday

1919-05-23

Place of Birth

St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Biography

Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, who starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement. As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.
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