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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.
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.
Mar 19, 2009 · March 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...
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.
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, 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.
