Acting credits
42
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Betty Garrett
Acting
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Movies: 23Series: 19
TMDB ID: 109614
IMDb ID: nm0308081
Known for: Acting
Born: May 23, 1919
Died: February 12, 2011
Age: 91
Place of birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2012
Years active: 65
Average TMDB rating: 6.98
Wikidata: Q235196
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Betty Garrett.
as Self
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012 • Movie
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009 • Movie
as Mrs. Hausenstout
Dark and Stormy Night
2009 • Movie
as Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008 • Movie
as Mrs. Cuttle
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
2007 • Movie
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 • Movie
as Self
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002 • Movie
as Self
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000 • Movie
as Veronica
The Long Way Home
1998 • Movie
as Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996 • Movie
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994 • Movie
as Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
That's Dancing!
1985 • Movie
as Catherine
All the Way Home
1981 • Movie
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
1974 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 • Movie
as Linda Atlas
The Shadow on the Window
1957 • Movie
as Ruth Sherwood
My Sister Eileen
1955 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Costume Designer
1950 • Movie
as Brunhilde Esterhazy
On the Town
1949 • Movie
as Betty Barrett
Neptune's Daughter
1949 • Movie
as Shirley Delwyn
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949 • Movie
as Peggy Lorgan McNeil
Words and Music
1948 • Movie
as Shoo Shoo Grady
Big City
1948 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Betty Garrett.
as Eleanor • 1 eps
Grey's Anatomy
2005 • Series
as Miriam Guber • 1 eps
Boston Public
2000 • Series
as Mrs. Firth • 1 eps
Becker
1998 • Series
as Agnes • 1 eps
Union Square
1997 • Series
1 eps
Townies
1996 • Series
as Phyllis • 1 eps
The Good Life
1994 • Series
1 eps
Blacke's Magic
1986 • Series
as Sarah • 1 eps
The Golden Girls
1985 • Series
as Kit Parkins • 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
1984 • Series
2 eps
Mr. Merlin
1981 • Series
as Martha McCoy • 1 eps
The Love Boat
1977 • Series
as Edna Babish • 119 eps
Laverne & Shirley
1976 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Dinah!
1974 • Series
as Mary Hallen • 1 eps
Great Performances
1971 • Series
as Irene Lorenzo • 15 eps
All in the Family
1971 • Series
as Margaret Ruskin • 1 eps
The Fugitive
1963 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 • Series