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Apr 15, 2003 · When Betsy Blair married Gene Kelly, it was a dream come true, but like most fairy-tale romances, there was a dark side to the glamour and glitz. Always an independent and inquiring spirit, Blair was soon attracted to left-wing politics, and her Communist-sympathizing activities in turn attracted the attention of HUAC investigators.
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Mar 21, 2009 · Betsy Blair died in London at the age of 85. Chances are you may remember her only because she was nominated for an Oscar. She played Ernest Borgnine's girlfriend in the 1955 film, Marty. Blair ...
Betsy Blair. Actor. Born December 11, 1923 in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA. 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 ...
Mar 13, 2009 · Betsy Blair Obituary. 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 starred in ...
Mar 13, 2009 · Obituary. 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 starred in several films ...
Mar 20, 2009 · Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85, her publisher said on Thursday. The New Jersey-born actress, who later married film ...
Mar 13, 2009 · 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. There she met Gene Kelly; they were married the following year, when she was age 17 and divorced sixteen years later in 1957.
