1919-05-23 ( 105 years old ) in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
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.
Movies
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012-01-20
Troupers
2011-06-01
Dark and Stormy Night
2009-10-10
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008-01-10
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
2007-06-08
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002-09-24
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000-05-16
The Long Way Home
1998-03-01
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996-11-25
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
That's Dancing!
1985-01-18
All the Way Home
1981-12-21
That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
The Shadow on the Window
1957-03-06
My Sister Eileen
1955-09-22
The Costume Designer
1950-07-13
On the Town
1949-12-08
Neptune's Daughter
1949-06-10
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949-03-09
Words and Music
1948-12-31
Big City
1948-03-25
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