Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923-12-11
- Died
- 2009-03-13
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Camino de Santiago
- The Memory of All That
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Film & TV
Acting · Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
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. There she met Gene Kelly. They were married the following year,…
Known for
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self2003
- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer — Self2002
- Scarlett — Sister of Mercy1994
- Betrayed — Gladys Simmons1988
- Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair — Grace Simpson1988
- Suspicion — Lady McLaidlaw1987
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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.
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. There she met Gene Kelly; they were married the following year, when she was age 17 and divorced sixteen years later in 1957.
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1923 births2009 deaths20th-century American actresses20th-century American dancers21st-century American womenActresses from Bergen County, New JerseyAmerican expatriate actressesAmerican expatriates in EnglandAmerican female dancersAmerican film actressesAmerican stage actressesBest Foreign Actress BAFTA Award winners