Marty
1955
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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.
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 16, 2009 · 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 socialist Gene...
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 85.
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, 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...
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...
