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Dec 22, 2009 · Betsy Blair: An Independent Woman. 1923-2009. IN THE 1955 sleeper hit “Marty,” Ernest Borgnine plays a bachelor falling for a plain schoolteacher who has been jilted at a dance by her date ...
Mar 20, 2009 · LONDON — Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85. The New Jersey-born actress, who later married film director Karel Reisz ...
Mar 16, 2009 · Others named names. Among its victims, the actor Betsy Blair, who has died aged 85, considered herself fortunate. Despite being blacklisted, she was made less vulnerable by her marriage to fellow ...
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 20, 2009 · Betsy Blair, an actress best remembered for playing the shy schoolteacher who meets Ernest Borgnine’s lonely Bronx butcher at the Stardust Ballroom in the 1955 movie “Marty,” has died.
Mar 13, 2009 · Betsy Blair. Birth. 11 Dec 1923. Cliffside Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. Death. 13 Mar 2009 (aged 85) London, City of London, Greater London, England. Burial. Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend Add to Map.
Betsy Blair began her career on stage in the early 1940s and, after a break for marriage and motherhood with her first husband, dancing legend Gene Kelly, made her film debut in "The Guilt of ...
