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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.
Mar 19, 2009 · Betsy Blair, an Academy Award-nominated actress also known for her forthright memoir describing her youthful marriage to Gene Kelly and her firsthand experience of the Hollywood blacklist,...
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.
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.” The girl next door wasn’t dancing her...
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.
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 · 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.
