Marty
1955
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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 · The New Jersey-born actress, who later married film director Karel Reisz, suffered from cancer and died on March 13. Mark Searle, at Elliot & Thompson, the British publishers of Blair’s 2003...
Mar 16, 2009 · After graduating from high school at 15 and being too impatient to wait to take up her scholarship at university, she went – with her teacher mother's connivance (her father was an insurance...
Dec 22, 2009 · As Betsy Blair, the actress who played that supposedly homely schoolteacher, once said of “Marty,” “It was new and different; it was about ordinary people.”
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. She was...
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.
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.
