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Betty Garrett
Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
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 to…
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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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2012
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Movie Self
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2011
Troupers
Movie
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2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
Movie (archive footage)
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2009
Dark and Stormy Night
Movie Mrs. Hausenstout
- 2008
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2007
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Movie Mrs. Cuttle
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Eleanor
- 2003
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2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Movie Self
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2000
Boston Public
TV show Miriam Guber
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2000
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Movie Self
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1998
Becker
TV show Mrs. Firth
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1998
The Long Way Home
Movie Veronica
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1997
Union Square
TV show Agnes
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1996
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Movie Self
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1996
Townies
TV show
More credits
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1994
The Good Life
TV show Phyllis
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1986
Blacke's Magic
TV show
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1985
The Golden Girls
TV show Sarah
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1985
That's Dancing!
Movie Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Kit Parkins
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1981
All the Way Home
Movie Catherine
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1981
Mr. Merlin
TV show
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Martha McCoy
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1976
Laverne & Shirley
TV show Edna Babish
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1974
That's Entertainment!
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Mary Hallen
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1971
All in the Family
TV show Irene Lorenzo
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Margaret Ruskin
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1957
The Shadow on the Window
Movie Linda Atlas
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1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV show Self
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1955
My Sister Eileen
Movie Ruth Sherwood
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1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self
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1950
The Costume Designer
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1949
On the Town
Movie Brunhilde Esterhazy
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1949
Neptune's Daughter
Movie Betty Barrett
