Happy Days

 

Betty's first role as a chorus girl. She was only 13 years old but she lied about her age. So the studio tought she was 16 years old. When her father first saw the movie he couldn't find his own daughter because the movie was shot in blackface.

 

Let's Go Places.

 

In this movie Betty isn't creditted but again she plays a chorine.

Sadly enough this movie is lost.

 

1930

 

New movietone follies of 1930

 

And again betty plays a chorine

 

Whoopee!

 

Betty plays a goldwyn girl between some others.

 

Kiki

 

Again Betty as Goldwyn girl

 

Crashing hollywood.

 

Betty's first movie short under the name Frances dean.

 

1931

 

Ex-Sweeties.

 

Betty stays uncreditted in this movie short.

 

1931

 

Palmy days.

 

In this eddy cantor comedy betty plays a bakery clerk/goldwyn girl.

 

 

Once a hero.

 

Betty's second movie under the name Frances dean.

 

1932

 

The greeks had a word for them

 

In this Joan blondell movie Betty played the hat check girl.

 

Lady! Please!

 

Uncredited

 

1932

 

Hollywood luck.

 

Betty as frances dean.

 

1932

 

Probation

 

Betty plays a girl called ruth jarrett

 

 

The flirty sleepwalker.

 

Another short as Frances dean

 

1932.

 

Hollywood lights

 

Again as frances dean.

 

1932.

 

The age of consent

 

Betty plays a student walking on campus

 

Hold èm jail

 

Betty plays a character called barbara jones.

 

 

Over the counter.

 

Betty plays a customer who wants to buy a baby.

 

1932.

 

The kid from spain

 

Betty again as goldwyn girl

 

Cavalcade

 

Betty plays a girl on a couch

 

Child of manhattan

 

Betty's character is called lucy

 

 

Melody cruise.

 

Betty plays the first stewardess

 

What price innocence?

 

Betty plays a character called beverly bennett

 

Sweetheart of sigma chi

 

Betty plays "the girl of my dreams"

 

Air Tonic.

 

Uncredited.

 

1934

 

School for romance

 

Betty plays a student

 

1934

 

Hips! Hips! Hooray!

 

Betty has a very bit part in this movie

 

Elmer steps out.

 

uncredited

 

1934

 

Love detectives.

 

Betty plays a character names Alice

 

1934

 

Business is a pleasure

 

Uncredited

 

1934

 

Susie's affairs

 

Betty Grable (as Susie Lee) concocts a scheme in which she takes over a socialite's apartment in order to fool her boyfriend (played by Art Jarrett) into believing that she comes from a wealthy family. What she doesn't realize is that it is Jarrett's apartment, and Grable and her singing and dancing friends entertain him.

 

1934

 

The gay divorcee

 

Betty plays one song in this movie Let's knock knees.

 

Student tour

 

Betty plays cayenne she also sings one song in it called Snake Dance.

 

By your leave

 

Betty plays a character named frances gretchell

 

1934

 

Ferry-Go-Round

 

Betty plays a character named Betty

 

1935

 

The spirit of 1976

 

uncredited

 

1935

 

The nitwits

 

Betty Grable is on hand this time as Wheeler’s love interest. Wheeler & Grable sing “You Opened My Eyes"

 

a night at the biltmore bowl

 

Betty plays a vocalist

 

1935

 

Drawing rumors

 

uncredited

 

1935

 

Old man rhythm

 

First, there's fifth-billed Betty Grable, who is featured in several songs. And she does a rapid-fire tap dance on her toes, ballet style, that seemed very difficult

 

1935

 

A quiet fourth

 

uncredited

 

1936

 

Collegiate

 

Betty plays dorothy

 

1936

 

Follow the fleet

 

Betty is only  to see for about 5 minutes. The first three minutes you can watch her sing in a threesome of girls. And the last two minutes she walks trough a room.

 

Don't turn ém loose

 

Beautiful Betty Grable as Robert's sister is a joy to watch.

 

1936

 

Pigskin parade

 

the film offers early glimpses of future big names like Betty Grable

 

This way please

 

Betty Grable plays Jane Morrow, a young girl who applies for a job as a theater usherette, hoping to someday get her big chance performing on the stage. She encounters Brad W. Morgan (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), a matinée idol and singer who is master of ceremonies at the local first run movie house. After taking an interest in her, Brad arranges in giving her a chance with an audition, and in the long run, she attracts much attention while Brad starts to lose his credibility. After Jane becomes engaged to marry Stu Randall (Lee Bowman), with a big wedding ceremony arranged to take place at the movie theater, it will be up to Brad to try to break into the theater to claim her

 

Thrill of a lifetime.

 

Betty plays Gwen

 

College swing

 

Throw into this zany pot Betty Grable

 

Give me a sailor

 

Betty plays nancy larkins and she sings a song called What goes on here in my heart

 

Campus confessions

 

Betty plays her first starring part as Joyce gilmore

 

Man about town

 

Betty Grable provides a bit of life in a small but memorable role

 

Million dollar legs

 

Betty plays the girl with the million dollar legs carroll parker

 

1939

 

The day the bookies wept

 

Betty grable plays Ina firpo

 

Down argentine way

 

American girl (Grable) on vacation in Argentina falls for wealthy racehorse owner (Ameche). Lots of scenery and musical entertainment. Carmen Miranda's debut.

 

Tin pan alley

 

Alice and Betty make believable sisters and perform some knockout numbers together (especially "The Sheik of Araby", which also boasts the talents of the marvelous Nicholas Brothers).

 

Moon over miami

 

Betty Grable, Carole Landis, and Charlotte Greenwood, two sisters and their aunt work as carhops in a drive-up Texas diner and they get a letter from a lawyer. Another relative has up and died and left the family fortune to them. But after the court and Uncle Sam have taken their share, it's only several thousand apiece.

Betty has her sights set on landing a millionaire husband as any bright girl in that era would. Landis and Greenwood don't need much convincing to pool their resources and go to Miami and hang out where the millionaires do. Betty pretends to be a millionaire heiress herself with Landis as a secretary and Greenwood her maid

 

A yank in the r.a.f

 

Betty plays carroll Brown who has a relationship with the playboy tim baker. But then she falls in love with another guy.

Hilaric movie in which betty struggles between her love for the two guys. She also sings two songs in this movie.

 

I wake up screaming

 

Betty Grable is quite revealing and capable of expressing a genuine human emotion in the rare dramatic role of Jill Lynn, the sister of the slain victim Vicky (Carole Landis)

 

Song of the islands

 

Betty Grable in a grass skirt

 

Footlight serenade

 

Grable gets able support by John Payne and Victor Mature. Payne was also hitting his stride as Fox's singing Tyrone Power and he and Grable have some nice if forgettable tunes. Payne's rival here is Victor Mature also a rising leading man for Darryl Zanuck

 

 

 

Springtime in the rockies

 

Yes, this was indeed a fun and entertaining film with my favorites John Payne & Betty Grable. Music is terrific and dancing is fantastic. The Nicholas brothers do a fantastic number, and the orchestra is Harry James. Edward Everett Horton (related to me by marriage) is always a delight with his nervous mumbo jumbo and getting hooked by Carmen Miranda and her boys from Mexico. Song that stays in my mind is "I Got The Craziest Dream

 

Coney Island

 

this movie has everything that everyone expects of Betty Grable every time. It is bright and colorful and silly and funny and loads of fun. Betty, (ever the independent and employed woman) is working as an entertainer in an odd little dive. Well, a friend of the owners does what we would now call a corporate take-over--and then he does a make-over on Betty and she becomes a big musical comedy star--but wait--it is more complicated than that! See this and you will understand why Betty Grable was loved at the box office for so long. She is wonderful

 

Sweet rosie o'grady

 

Betty Grable at her loveliest

 

Pin up girl

 

Betty plays the Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

 

Diamond horseshoe

 

Betty Grable looks and sounds great as usual.

 

The dolly sisters

 

In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox, whom they meet en route, schemes to get them an audition with the great Hammerstein; but their resulting success takes them far out of Harry's league. Lots of songs with a little story.

 

Hollywood park

 

Uncredited

 

1946

 

Do you love me

 

Uncredited

 

The shocking miss pilgrim

 

Betty Grable becomes an activist!

 

Mother wore tights

 

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.

 

That lady in ermine

 

In 1948 this was my all-time favorite movie. Betty Grable's costumes were so ravishing that I wanted to grow up to be her and dress like that. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was irresistible as the dashing Hungarian officer. Silly and fluffy as this movie might appear at first, when I was eight years old it seemed to me to say something important about relations between men and women. I saw it again the other day; I was surprised to find that it still did.

 

When my baby smiles at me

 

Vaudeville performers, Dailey and Grable, have marital difficulties when he hits the "Big Time", which are compounded by his drinking problem.

 

The beautiful blonde from bashful bend

 

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.

 

Wabash avenue

 

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.

 

My blue heaven

 

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby, finally acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. Complications follow amid a series of musical numbers much too good for 1950 TV.

 

Call me mister

 

G.I. Sergeant Shep Dooley, former stage star awaiting discharge in postwar Tokyo, meets his estranged love Kay when she arrives to entertain the troops. Shep, who hasn't exactly lost his former irresponsibility, does his best to court Kay anew...but she has no lack of other admirers as she labors to put on a soldier show.

 

Meet me after the show

 

Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.

 

The farmer takes a wife

 

Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.

 

How to marry a millionaire

 

Betty plays a model called loco dempsey. She and her friends Pola (Marilyn monroe) and schatze (Lauren bacall) rent an expensive house and try to find a millionaire to marry so they won't have to worry about money any longer. But at the end the girls all find out that money isn't everything and they all marry average guys with not too much money.

 

Three for the show

 

Betty Grable's last full scale musical

 

How to be very, very popular

 

Song-and-dance girls Curly and Stormy Tornado hide out with the guys at Bristol College when they know they can identify the killer of a fellow performer at their San Francisco cabaret. But they rather stand out in their stage costumes and soon all sorts of trouble is heading their way. The fact that Curly has been hypnotised doesn't help.