Actress Betty Grable was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 18, 1916.

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Actress Betty Grable was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 18, 1916. Remembered for her films during the #1930s, #1940s & #1950s,including How To Marry A Millionaire (1953). Later on TV & nightclubs.Passed in 1973 (age 56) from #lungcancer #RIP #QuitSMOKING #GoneTooSoon #GoneButNeverForgoten

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Betty Grable - Moon Over Miami (1941) - "You Started Something"
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'This Is It' with Betty Grable (1944)
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From the 1944 20th Century Fox film 'Pin Up Girl'

Pin Up Girl is a 1944 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical romantic comedy motion picture starring Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, and Joe E. Brown.

Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and produced by William LeBaron, the screenplay was adapted by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Earl Baldwin based on a short story titled Imagine Us! (1942) by Libbie Block.

Pin Up Girl capitalized on Grable's iconic pin-up status during World War II, even using her famous swimsuit photo in portions of the movie.

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50 Millionth Car-How To Marry A Millionaire- Betty Grable (1953)
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Clip from How To Marry A Millionaire
Stars Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable

Man Without Trees-How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) Betty Grable
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Clip from How To Marry A Millionaire

Who could forget Harvey Lembeck as Betty Grable?

Stalag 17 Dancing Scene
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The dancing scene from Stalag 17. I own no rights, just a fan.

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1. On the TV now, "Springtime in the Rockies," from 1937, starring her future husband, Harry James

Springtime in the Rockies



Springtime in the Rockies is an American Technicolor musical comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942. It stars Betty Grable, with support from John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton. Also appearing were Grable's future husband Harry James and his band. The director was Irving Cummings. The screenplay was based on the short story "Second Honeymoon" by Philip Wylie.

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[Spider Jerusalem]

2. My 3rd cousin (3x removed)

her family were early Kentucky pioneers who settled the area near Louisville back in the late 1700s. She and Virginia Pearson (probably best known for her role as the doyenne of the Paris Opera in the Lon Chaney version of Phantom of the Opera) were second cousins.