Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1919-05-23
Day of Death
2011-02-12
Place of Birth
Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
Betty Garrett
Biography
Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, who starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement. As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.
Filmography (24)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012Troupers
2011
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009
Dark and Stormy Night
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
2007
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000
The Long Way Home
1998
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996
That's Entertainment! III
1994
That's Dancing!
1985
All the Way Home
1981
