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Betsy Blair (born Elizabeth Winifred Boger; December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.
As the touching plain-Jane girlfriend of Ernest Borgnine's title butcher, Betsy won the Cannes Film and British Film acting awards, not to mention an Oscar nomination. It did not help her overcome the blacklist, however.
Betsy Blair. Actress: Marty. Betsy Blair was born in Cliffside, New Jersey, a child model before finding work as a chorus dancer at the early age of 15. She received her first mini-break on Broadway in "Panama Hattie" in 1940 delivering a single line, but by the next year she had copped the ingénue lead in William Saroyan's "The Beautiful People."
Mar 20, 2009 · Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85.
Mar 20, 2009 · Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, died of cancer March 13 in London. She was 85. The New Jersey-born actress later married film director Karel Reisz.
Mar 13, 2009 · Betsy Blair -December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940.
Mar 19, 2021 · Connie interviewed Betsy Blair, January 2003, on her newly released autobiography “And The Memory of All That.”. Courtesy of Claremont Graduate University collection.
Mar 13, 2009 · Betsy Blair (born Elizabeth Winifred Boger; December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.
Although circumstances conspired to deny her the recognition her talent as an actor deserved, Betsy Blair was never given to regret. As she said in her moving 2003 memoir, The Memory of All...
Mar 13, 2009 · Academy Award-nominated actress Betsy Blair died on March 13, 2009 at her home in London after a long illness. She was 85. Blair began on Broadway and later...
