Betty Garrett
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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.
Known for
Credits
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
as Self
On the Town (1949)
as Brunhilde Esterhazy
The Long Way Home (1998)
as Veronica
That's Dancing! (1985)
as Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen (1955)
as Ruth Sherwood
Words and Music (1948)
as Peggy Lorgan McNeil
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Neptune's Daughter (1949)
as Betty Barrett
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
as Shirley Delwyn
Big City (1948)
as Shoo Shoo Grady
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman (1996)
as Self
Frank Sinatra Memorial (2000)
as Self
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
as Mrs. Cuttle
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)
as Self
All the Way Home (1981)
as Catherine
The Shadow on the Window (1957)
as Linda Atlas
The Costume Designer (1950)
as Self (archive footage)
Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
as Mrs. Hausenstout
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012)
as Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008)
as Self
Troupers (2011)
Actor
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009)
as (archive footage)