Betty’s Top Years in Hollywood |
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The Film |
Year |
Studio |
Director |
Top 5 Cast Members |
Description |
Soundtrack |
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Down Argentine Way |
1940 |
20th Century-Fox |
Irving Cummings |
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, and J. Carroll Naish |
Betty’s career finally takes hold in this acclaimed musical |
Two Dreams Met, Menita, Sing To Your Senorita, I Want My Mama, Doin’ The Conga, South American Way |
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Tin Pan Alley |
1940 |
20th Century-Fox |
Walter Lang |
Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne and Allen Jenkins |
It’s a sister act with Alice Faye and the last time she would receive second billing for many years. |
You Say The Sweetest Things Baby, America I Love You, Goodbye, Broadway, Hello France, Moonlight Bay, The Sheik of Araby, K-K-K-Katy |
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Moon Over Miami |
1941 |
20th Century-Fox |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings, Charlotte Greenwood and Jack Haley |
Another sister act, this time with Carole Landis. Remake of 1938 Three Blind Mice. |
Solitary Seminole, Loveliness and You, You Started Something, Hurray For Today, Miami, I’ve Got You All By Myself, Is That Good?, Kindergarten Conga, |
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A Yank in the R.A.F. |
1941 |
20th Century Fox |
Henry King |
Betty Grable, Tyrone Power, John Sutton, Reginald Gardner and Donald Stuart. |
Betty in a straight role, black & white. |
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I Wake Up Screaming |
1942 |
20th Century-Fox |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar and William Gargan |
Black and white drama in which Betty plays sister to Carole Landis. It’s up to sleuth Betty and Victor Mature to find the real killer. |
Somewhere Over The Rainbow |
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Song Of The Islands |
1942 |
20th Century-Fox |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell and George Barbier. |
Betty in Technicolor in this Hawaiian delight. |
Blue Shadows and White Gardenias, O’Brien Has Gone Hawaiian, Malalo Mawena, What’s Buzzin’ Cousin?, Down On Ami-oni-isle, Sing Me A Song Of The Islands |
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Footlight Serenade |
1942 |
20th Century-Fox |
Gregory Ratoff |
Betty Grable, John Payne, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman and James Gleason |
Black and white backstage musical. |
Living High (On Western Hill), I’ll Be Marching To a Love Song, I’m Still Crazy For You, I Heard the Birdies Sing, Are You Kidding?, Land On Your Feet |
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Springtime in the Rockies |
1942 |
20th Century-Fox |
Irving Cummings |
Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, and Harry James and his Orchestra |
Beautiful Technicolor film with a cameo by Harry James (Betty’s future husband) |
I Had The Craziest Dream, A Poem Set To Music, Pan American Jubilee, Run Little Raindrop Run, I Like To Be Loved By You, Chatanooga Choo Choo |
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Coney Island |
1943 |
20th Century-Fox |
Irving Cummings |
Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, Charles Winninger and Phil Silvers |
Betty plays a show girl who needs to be refined to be noticed in Coney Island |
Take IT From There, Beautiful Coney Island, Miss Lulu From Louisville, Get The Money, There’s Danger In A Dance, Old Demon Run, Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Everybody Loves A Baby |
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Sweet Rosie O’Grady |
1943 |
20th Century-Fox |
Irving Cummings |
Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolph Menjou, Reginald Gardner and Virginia Grey |
Betty plays a singer from Brooklyn who becomes the toast of London |
My Heart Tells ME, The Wishing Waltz, Get Your Police Gazette, My Sam, Going To The Fair, Where Oh Where Is The Groom? |
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Four Jills in a Jeep |
1944 |
20th Century-Fox |
William A. Seiter |
Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair and Jimmy Dorsey and Band |
Betty plays a small cameo rolein this back and white wartime film |
Crazy Me, You Send ME, How Blue The Night, How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You, Ohio, It’s the Old Army Game, YOu Never Miss A Trick, Heil, Heel Hitler |
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Pin Up Girl |
1944 |
20th Century-Fox |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye Joe E. Brown and Eugene Pallette |
Betty plays a pin up girl with one too many fiances. |
Pin-Up Girl, Once Too Often, Yankee Doodle Hayride, The Very Merry Widow, Don’t Carry Tales Out OF School, Red Robins, Bob Whites and Bluebirds |
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Wing and A Prayer |
1944 |
? |
? |
Don Ameche, Dana Andrews |
Uncredited
Archive Footage |
? |
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Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe |
1944 |
20th Century-Fox |
George Seaton |
Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, William Gaxton and Beatrice Kay |
Betty is a show girl in this glorious Hollywood musical |
I Wish I Knew, The More I see You, In Acapulco, Play Me An Old Fashioned Melody, A Nickels Worth of Jive, Moody, Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe, Cooking Up A Stew |
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The Dolly Sisters |
1945 |
20th Century-Fox |
Irving Cummings |
Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, and Reginald Gardner |
Betty and June play Jenny and Rosie Dolly in this Technicolor film. |
I Can’t Begin To Tell You, Old-Fashioned Girl, Give Me The Moonlight, Give Me The Girl, We HAve Been Around, Carolina In The Morning, Powder and Lipstick and Rouge, Darktown Strutter’s Ball, Smiles |
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Do You Love Me? |
1946 |
20th Century-Fox |
Gregory Ratoff |
Maureen O’Hara, Dick Haymes, Harry James, Reginald Gardner and Richard Gaines |
Betty does a bit part at the movies close with Harry James. |
I Didn’t Mean A Word I Said, As If I Didn’t Have Enough On My Mind, Moonlight Propaganda, Do You Love Me |
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim |
1947 |
20th Century-Fox |
George Seaton |
Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Anne Revere, Allyn Joslyn and Gene Lockhart |
Betty plays a suffragette. |
Aren’t You Kinda Glad We Did, For You, For ME, For Evermore, But Not In Boston, Stand Up And Fight, Changing My Tune, One, Two, Three, Sweet Packard, Waltz Me No Waltzes, Waltzing Is Better Than Sitting Down |
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Mother Wore Tights |
1947 |
20th Century-Fox |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Dan Daily, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall and Vanessa Brown |
Betty and Dan are a vaudeville team |
You Do, Kokomo, Indiana, There’s Nothing Like A Song, On A lIttle Two Seat Tandem, This Is My Favorite City, Rolling Down To Bowling Green, Fare-Thee-Well Alma Mater, Tra-La-La-La |
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That Lady in Ermine |
1948 |
20th Century-Fox |
Ernst Lubitsch-Otto Preminger |
Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel and Reginald Gardner |
Betty plays an Italian countess |
This Is The Moment, The Melody Has To Be Right, There’s Something About Midnight, The Jester’s Song, It’s Always a Beautiful Day |
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When My Baby Smiles at Me |
1948 |
20th Century-Fox |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie, June Havoc and Richard Arlen |
Backstage again, with Betty and Dan as a husband wife team. |
By The Way, What Did I Do, When My Baby Smiles At Me |
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The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend |
1949 |
20th Century-Fox |
Preston Sturges |
Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan and Sterling Holloway |
Betty carries a six shooter in the Technicolor old west flick. |
Everytime I Meet You, Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend, In The Gloaming |
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Wabash Avenue |
1950 |
20th Century-Fox |
Henry Koster |
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, Reginald Gardner and James Barton |
A Re-working of Coney Island with a different setting – (one of my favourites) |
Wabash Avenue, Clean Up Chicago, Wilhemina, May I Tempt You With A Big Red Rosy Apple Baby, Say You Love Me |
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My Blue Heaven |
1950 |
20th Century-Fox |
Henry Koster |
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt and Mitzie Gaynor |
Betty and Dan are — you guessed it — a couple of television personalities who are trying to have a baby. |
My Blue Heaven, Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard, The Friendly Islands, It’s Deductible, Halloween, Don’t Rock The Boat Dear, What A Man, I Love A NEw Yorker, Cosmo Cosmetics |